Here's what I do:

1 - Boot up from my OS9 CD
2 - Format my internal 1 gig HD with Drive set up with the 'preferred linux
PPC' partition set up
3 - Install a minimal OS9 system on my small MacOS partition on my 1gig
drive
4 - Reboot in to Mac OS9
5 - Run the Linux installer
6 - Reboot and select Linux in the BootX screen
7 - It seems to start booting (from the CD) and eventually puts me in to the
Linux GUI installer
8 - I go down the list of things to do in the installer, but every time I
re-boot it has a ton of errors (mainly that it can't find certain things) -
and then it goes in to the RedHat (non GUI) installer.

I am sure there is some crucial step I must be missing, so I am hoping one
of you guys could point it out to me and help me get to the next step.

Oh yeah, one more question:  I only seem to be able to get video output when
using my Mach 64 PCI card for video , but I get NOTHING when I use the 7200s
internal video... Is there a way to have Linux use the 7200 Built-In video
properly?  Thanks.

+ and then it goes in to the RedHat (non GUI) installer.

Just go straight into the RH installer. I never could get the X thing
to work worth a hill o' beans.

+ Oh yeah, one more question:  I only seem to be able to get video output when
+ using my Mach 64 PCI card for video , but I get NOTHING when I use the 7200s
+ internal video... Is there a way to have Linux use the 7200 Built-In video
+ properly?  Thanks.

It is probably using the video card that MacOS is using. Have you switched
that to built-in video?

James
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I R A Darth Aggie <fl_ag...@thepentagon.com> wrote in message
news:slrn89k3hk.sre.fl_aggie@thepentagon.com...

Is there a way to get in to the RH installer and avoid the X thing all
together?

Is there a control panel or something for this?  I just pull my ATI card and
assume that it will use what's available...

Thank you very much for your help!

Actually, I rather like the X Installer because, although the install
initially failed, by opening the Installer Output window (minimized by
default), I was able to figure out why it didn't work, open an XTerm and
fix it without rebooting.

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+ > Just go straight into the RH installer. I never could get the X thing
+ > to work worth a hill o' beans.

+ Actually, I rather like the X Installer because, although the install
+ initially failed, by opening the Installer Output window (minimized by
+ default), I was able to figure out why it didn't work, open an XTerm and
+ fix it without rebooting.

Well, did you happen to write down what you did to make it work? I think
there may be more than one person out there who'd really appreciate
that...

James
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+ I R A Darth Aggie

+ > Just go straight into the RH installer. I never could get the X thing
+ > to work worth a hill o' beans.

+ Is there a way to get in to the RH installer and avoid the X thing all
+ together?

Yes. On the bootX screen, where you have: ramdisk_size=8192
make it: ramdisk_size=8192 redhat

+ > It is probably using the video card that MacOS is using. Have you switched
+ > that to built-in video?

+ Is there a control panel or something for this?  I just pull my ATI card and
+ assume that it will use what's available...

Yes. Pulling your ATI card is one way to do it, sure... :) I think the
control panel is called Monitors or, um, ah...Monitors and ???? (sound?).

James
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I installed the Q3 release on my 7200 with built in video, I used a
seperate 1 gig drive and followed the instructions word for word that
were included on the CD.  My only problem was getting the syntax right
in pdisk but once I mastered that I had no trouble.  Now if you are
successful and you can mount the cdrom let me know, because that I have
been unable to accomplish