Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:13:15PM +0000, John Fremlin wrote: [...] >> How do we stop the monitor going out of sync? Is there a bootloader >> command line or something anywhere?
In fact this was "fixed" by changing the monitor to an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV. [...] > You can also boot the Debian installer from BootX. Put the 'linux' file > from the distribution in the Linux Kernels folder, and set the root file to > root.bin in the Options. Be sure when you download not to save linux as > SimpleText. It must be binary. Thanks, that's more or less what we did in the end! We've got debian woody installed OK now >> We can't boot into yellowdog anymore because the install fscked up as >> it was making the root fs, razing our MacOS to the ground. Is there >> any small Mac system disk with a CD driver so we can bootstrap >> yellowdog from CD again? >> > > There's a MacOS 8.1 floppy image at the apple site, search for Disk > Tools. But most Macs can boot CDs without a system, did you hold > the C key down? The 8.1 floppy image does not include the CD drive driver (the Apple CD-ROM Extension). Copying the one from 7.6.1 across worked though. [...] -- http://john.fremlin.de
