[PD] Pd on Mac OS X

[Jamie Bullock]

Patrick,

Two things:

1. Be careful that you install OS X first, and reserve a large empty 
space at the START of the disk for your Linux partitions. This is 
because the Open Firmware steps through the partitions in _order_ 
searching for a boot loader. If it doesn't find Yaboot - the Linux 
bootloader first, it will boot straight into MacOS.

2. You might not get anything like the full graphics functionality that 
your chipset supports.  CK is right about the nvidia cards being largely 
unsupported, but even with an ATI card, I have only ever been able to 
get XFree86 to run in 8-bit mode!

To bring things back on topic though - Debian on PPC should work great 
for PD - I don't know about GEM and the video stuff...

Jamie

Patrick Pagano wrote:

> i would love an assessment of how hard it was getting debian to run on 
> a mac
>