Nate Duehr wrote: > > Hi all, > > Long-time linux user, new to Mac. Bought a nifty little iMac DV SE (the > 500Mhz G3 version) last weekend and have been messing around with it. > Nice machine!
How far through bugdom have you got? > Read through all the Debian docs and Ethan's stuff on his site. Nice > job, guys. > > Created a Debian-PPC ISO image and burnt a CD-R to "ease" installation. > > Repartitioned the drive with Apple's tool to have a small partition up > front for the boot gymnastics, an HFS+ partition for OS9, and a bunch > (20 MB) of unallocated space to put other toys in (OS X, Linux). > > The plan was to then boot from the CD-R and finish up with mac-fdisk. > > >From reading, I thought that the Debian-PPC CD-R should have been > bootable. I know about holding down C during the boot, etc. It won't > boot. It *is* perfectly readable however. I can answer this one (having just trodden the same path). Go into open firmware (Apple-Alt-O-F at boot) and type: boot cd:,\\yaboot and you'll be there. The imac is apparently too new for the CD. John -- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England. The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux CDs in the UK See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/
