Gunne

I got to this point and I am in the process of selecting my partitions in the install. I just wnat to know how I boot it when the install is complete and then how to edit the menu file i have on HD:0 do I dont have to type that long string every time I want to run linux. I have auto boot set for MOS and I want to keep it like that. To boot linux befor eI killed the install I typed boot hd:0 menu and then I got a nice selection menu to pick 1, 2 or 3 for the three linux installs I had.

I should be able to just edit that menu file right? What do I use to do that?

you probably made this menu using bootcreator on MOS. You can still make a new boot menu using this app, or you can edit your current menu file with any text editor. this menu is written in Forth but even if you have no idea about it you'll realise by seing the file content that it's quite easy to tune to fulfill your needs.

good luck and welcome on Dapper !

Well I am still attempting to get it installed. I get an installer crash after I select a partition. I am attempting to di it again, and I deleted the breezy partition this time. Wish me luck!

Acill,

You will soon become an expert.

Some things thats good in Linux, of course good in any system, is to be able to load a txt config file and edit it to wanted need. So find a texteditor that You like, gedit, nano or vim or some other.

As SoundSquare writes, You can just edit the Pegasos boot menu script in a text editor. The same You can do with grub.cfg for the grub2 menu.

Load the Pegasos boot menu and edit it to something like as the examples I paste below.
For the grub2:
As You can see my script above points to hd,3. You have to change this so it points to the right partition on your set up. Likely the root=/dev/hdax must point to your Linux root partition.

The two files vmlinux as well as initrd.img are just symbolic links that points to the respectively real file. Eg vmlinux points to --> /boot/vmlinux-2.6.15-23-powerpc for instance

This means that you can always load vmlinux and it should always point to the most current installed kernel, as the symbolic link will become changed if needed when updating system.

Change directory to /boot and do ls -l and you will see all files

cd /boot
ls -l

Good luck !

Gunne

Well its installed, for now I just retyped your grub command gunne and it loads up my new dapper install just fine. Would I enter that into the menu when i edit it as well? if menu is on hd:o can you tell me the command to type? The file is called menu

I tried to mount hda1 using sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt which it worked fine, but then when I type nano menu it loads up the file, I make the changes and hit ^o and it shows the filename, I hit enter and it tells me it wont allow the file to save. How the heck do I do it?

Edit: Ah the power of sudo! I got it working and my menu is edited too now!!! Thanks for all the help!

and it works very well, my ubuntu kernel got updated a few days ago and loads perfectly with the symlink. I had nothing to change in grub2.
Thanks again gunne for this !

This is the very reason why I wrote, that the boot kernels I made are easier to start with, but as a long term solution, grub2 works better. One does not have to deal with regenerating kernel images when the kernel is updated.

For the next Ubuntu I will try to push a bootable kernel image on the installation CD (that won't change ), and grub2 as bootmanager on the installed system.

CzP

Well everything seems to work fine. Does anyone know of a guide to install all the restricted files like codecs and other MM stuff? I found a few god ones on the ?Ubuntu forums but most of it wont work on PPC. I enabled the universe an multiverse stuff in the package manager, but they have you edit a new one in and it seems to not find it when I update, so I think its a bad one now.

Anyway a good guide for us PPC users to get more function out of a new install for a new user would be a big help to me.

i think you'll love automatix, i posted about it earlier in this thread (page 3). It may also solve your Opera issue.

Any tips how to get java-plugin for mozilla/opera?

again, "automatix".

Hmm I installed the automatix, a newer one then you pointed to but from the same site and none of the firefox plugins seem to work. If I go to youtube I cant play videos and it tells me to get the plugin still. How to I make it all work?

Hello Acill
If we have this pegasos get together this weekend in San Diego I can help you with this.

magnetic

Next weekend is wide open. Thats the weekend before 4th of july.

Hi,

There is a very good wiki concerning Ubuntu at:

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/

If the answer isn't there, there is also very good Online Community at:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/