2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net <jwesleycoo...@cox.net>: > Hey all, > > I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original > iMac, which is one of the first "Bondi" blue ones ... from what your install > guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though, > because the OpenSuSE box I burnt them on can read them, and they were > verified > as 100% correct by K3B after I made the disks. I also tried getting the > disk to > boot from Open Firmware, but to no avail. > > Considering this, the only thing I can figure is that it must have something > to > do with the bios it has, especially after what I've read from the following > site > on getting OS-X (tiger) running on these antiques: > > http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1207.html > > Anyway, the currently installed Mac OS 8.6's Apple System Profiler reports > the > CPU to be a 333MHz PowerMac G3, the Boot ROM Version as 3.0.f3, and the Mac > OS > ROM File Version as 1.6. So ... can someone tell me what I might do to get > Squeeze on here, if at all possible minus having to flash the firmware? > I believe it should be possible.
Have you checked that the CD is readable in Mac OS? Have you tried to press C on boot up? What exactly happens? Do you see any text at all (besides that from OF)? Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacyrqa0tpzsj24pxrm8tfwyooezxo4imkrsox9+dpnjqble...@mail.gmail.com
