[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else. > And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive, > which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. > Is that what you meant by "can't be booted with a CD in the drive"? > > I'm not sure I understand your suggestion about installing from the > network. I don't mind where I install from, but if I've booted off the > hard drive, I won't be able to install onto it, and booting off the debian > cd (or I imagine any cd with similar kernel and config) makes me unable to > see the hard drive, so I'd have a chicken and egg problem, no?
I have absolutely the same model of iBook and have experienced the same problems when installed Debian on it. My solution was to install without using CD-ROM at all making all things from MacOSX and over the network... You could read http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html (I don't remember exactly, but it seems I've made sort of the same steps order) -- Valentin Podlovchenko, ____/| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ o.O| Tel. +7(095) 787-2058 (ext. 1245) =(_)= Fax. +7(095) 787-2056 PGP key: 0x54FAFB96 U
