Last night I successfully did a cold (other than having an AppleBootstrap Part already) install of rawhide onto my iMac DV SE. Here are the gotchas:
- install in text mode as we don't get correct X setup for macs yet - ie mac text at second yaboot prompt
- you must be running an anaconda >= 9.92-5
- Partitioning works other than for mac specific stuff - I just autopartitioned
- complete install
- reboot but use the cd again and go into rescue mode - mac rescue
- I used nfs install so /mnt/source is now the tree - I installed hfsutils - either rpm --root or cp, chroot, rpm will do
- I ran yabootconfig and edited then ran ybin
- set default run level to 3 and reboot
- I manually configure XFree86 (actually I cheated by using ydl's Xautoconfig rebuilt using xorg-foo
For all those keen to go I am pushing my tree courtesy of skvidal to duke:
http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorappc/
Update
Note off the cd you can tell yaboot to boot off the kernel - during install note the following partition numbers - / partition and /boot partition if seperate. Also note the kernel version (check from you mirror)
Boot from CD:
For non-boot cases (where 4 is / partition)
tell yaboot to boot hd:4,/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 root=/dev/hda4
For seperate boot (where 4 is /boot and 6 is /):
tell yaboot to boot hd:4,/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 root=/dev/hda6
Oh and the snapshot is up of the tree that worked.