--On Thursday, September 7, 2000 3:12 PM -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz
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Not really. In what way does it fail? Does the CD try to boot and
give a blank screen? Do you get a prompt?
Not quite, it doesn't recognize the disk as being bootable. That's about
it.
Startup Disk says the same thing, as does System Disk 3.1 from the Darwin
dist.
That's why I wondered if there was anything else I needed to do to make it
bootable.
The cd was burnt with Easy cd creator under windows, but I guess that
shouldn't be
the problem.
Did you remember (i know, this needs to be more documented) to hold
down C to boot from CD?
hehe, yes, many times in fact.
I guess I'm also curious if there is anyway to boot from the hard disk and
then install
from the cd, but I haven't found any documentation on this. Could be
because it's not
possible. Anyhow, suggestions on alternate install methods are welcome,
but, I have no
removeable media, and no other machine to boot it from.
matt kurpiewski
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:00:22PM -0400, matthewk wrote:
Are there any known issues with booting on the newest macs? The cd
I've made here doesn't seem to work.
matt kurpiewski
--On Thursday, September 7, 2000 2:49 PM -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:r
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:51:37AM -0400, Matthew Kurpiewski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a long time Debian/intel user who decided to switch to the powerpc
>> platform. Anyhow, I have a new Sage imac DV+ I'm just dying to get
>> debian installed to. However, being relatively new to the mac,
>> constructing mac bootable cd's from the debian .iso is a bit of
>> mystery to me. Do I have to burn it on a mac to make it bootable?
>> Are there any other considerations I should know about when burning
>> the cd? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Like I said, I'm
>> a bit anxious to get debian up and running. I'm not on the list so
>> please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Nope. It should be bootable no matter how it is burnt.
>
> Dan
>
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