<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Steve,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for the pointer. My current yaboot.conf file has no defaultos= line, so I guess I just add it? Question is where, or does it matter...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>yaboot.conf dump below:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">boot=/dev/hda2</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">partition=3</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">root=/dev/hda3</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">timeout=50</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">enablecdboot</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">image=/boot/vmlinux</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> label=Linux</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> read-only</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> initrd=/boot/initrd.img</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> append="quiet splash"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">image=/boot/vmlinux.old</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> label=old</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> read-only</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> append="quiet splash"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">See y'all later :D</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dave</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 3 Jul 2007, at 09:09, Steven Acreman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Morning Gents,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Looking forward to tonight. David, for yaboot you'll need to edit /etc/yaboot.conf and change the defaultos= line to the ubuntu option. Then set the timeout=0 to make it boot that immediately.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After making the changes to the file run ybin to apply.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>See you all later,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steven<BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 03/07/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Cliff Deamer</B> <<A href="mailto:cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com">cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi again, my brain not in gear yet!! The meeting is today 3rd July.<BR>Cliff<BR><BR>On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:40 +0100, David Pead wrote: <BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> My name's David. I'm pretty new to linux tho' am eager to learn. Am a<BR>> Mac user usually but am rapidly gaining interest/knowledge in all<BR>> things *nix and open-source, due to the underpinnings of OS X and my <BR>> work (Digital Print). I intend to come along to the July meeting<BR>> (tomorrow) and look forward to seeing some of you there?<BR>><BR>> Have a bit of scripting/web-programming experience and a basic<BR> > understanding of the CLI.<BR>><BR>> My particular interests on the linux front is running a home server.<BR>> LAMP and whatever else I can run for fun! Security is my biggest<BR>> concern before I open it up to the big wide world. Currently locked <BR>> down to LAN and only have my work IP range allowed through router<BR>> firewall. Also am curious to try MythTV... :D<BR>><BR>> Have dabbled with Debian on an old-world (beige G3) Mac, but<BR>> currently have Ubuntu on an unused G4 Mac from work under the stairs! <BR>><BR>> My first question is... 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