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[Jose Lopez <josewendy1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your quick reply Guys. Str8bs thanks I will try those parameters
and see if one works, as far as the (blindly) modprobe, you guys would
crack up seeing me trying to get that to work, and besides my shotgun is to
close and I want to keep the computer.



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Str8bs <str8bslinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jose,
>
> I don't have G3 with Rage/Mach64 that has enough RAM to test live
> installer, but you could try:
>
> boot: live video=offb:off video=atyfb:1024x768@75
>
> or
>
> boot: live video=offb:1024x768@75
>
> I don't think atyfb is currently built in, you may be able to modprobe
> it though.
> IE: "boot: live video=offb:off single" and then (blindly) modprobe
> atyfb mode_option=1024x768@75
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Lars Nooden <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 May 2013, Jose Lopez wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Str8bs,Keith, Lars, I don't want to interupt your work here, I just
> have a
> >> quick question that maybe one of you can answer. I have that Imac G3
> 333.33 Mhz
> >> with 256mb of ram that I got going last week. The question is, Is there
> a yaboot
> >> perameter that can get a live cd going? or is it just wish for me and
> have to
> >> install the alternate in order to do testing?.
> >>
> >> I'm just trying to see if i can do any good with the G3 for Lubuntu ppc.
> >> Thanks
> >> Jose
>