[Westwales] Debian and firewire drives

[Jon Pearse]

   ... and this is why there are experienced users out there to help us 
poor dabblers out, I guess.

   Anyways, in between more conventional 'friday night' stuff, I 
downloaded the netboot image and set it running. It all went rather 
well until yaboot (yet another bootloader) decided that it didn't like 
the fact that OS X is on one disk and Debian is on the other, and 
refused to install. I am now the proud owner of an iBook that'd run 
Debian if I could boot it.

   Ahh well, project for tomorrow, methinks. I'm back off out...

-Jon

On Apr 22, 2005, at 20:41, John Bailey wrote:

> Aih - see the raging debates about the speed of the Debian release 
> cycle .. 3.0 must be 2 or more years old by now - the revisions are 
> usually only security fixes/licensing issues - they don't actually 
> pull in new versions of anything unless they're absolutely forced to.
>
> Many people (myself included) use 'unstable' (at home, anyway) - which 
> while it can sound a bit unattractive, isn't usually that bad (the 
> only time that I can recall that I had a real issue was when they 
> broke the PAM packages, meaning that you couldn't log in using any PAM 
> enabled method ... a real kicker for people who had machines sitting 
> in remote data centers).  Then there's the mid-point, 'testing' which 
> I find tends to be pretty good.  All depends how close to the bleeding 
> edge you want to get.
>
> Ah, I see it's bulked out since I last did an net install =)
>
> John
>
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