Hi, as I cannot test Mac stuff, I do have one suggestion... Get a DVD-RW disk, they're good for at least 100 re-tries and can be found at dollar / euro / pound shops nice and cheap. I have a couple of DVD-RW's to complement my CD-RW's. Making toastrs with -R disks is a little silly :)
Regards, Phill. On 30 June 2014 00:24, Israel <israeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not entirely sure if I have been clear enough.... > I have successfully booted 12.04 and 14.04 from USB numerous times on two > machines. > the usb# depends on which USB port you are using. > This is a tried and true method, and Open Firmware does support it. > Open Firmware allows you to set how the computer boots, and which drive it > boots from. > > I was wondering if anyone else had tried this yet that > > a.) knows how to do this > b.) has had success doing it in the alpha > > I have done this more than once. This is something that has worked > reliably in the past few releases. It currently doesn't work. So I am > wondering if it will even boot from a DVD... I don't want to waste a DVD if > it wont work anyhow. > > Is this more clear? > > > On 06/29/2014 01:27 AM, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > > I do not believe booting via USB is supported by Apple PPC firmware, > period. I don't have much experience with installing Linux on PPC > hardware, but I do know that with Mac OS you can only boot via FireWire. > > Hope this helps! > On Jun 28, 2014 7:37 PM, "Israel" <israeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone tried booting this as a USB yet? >> For some reason, I am completely unable to boot it. >> I have been trying various open firmware commands, but it simply cannot >> boot. >> I downloaded the Alpha the other day, with no success on booting. >> I zsynced it today and MD5SUM'd it. >> >> So... here is the problem >> >> boot usb1/@1:2, \\yaboot >> wont work... >> I get this helpful? message >> >> >> MAC-PARTS: LOAD <noninterposed> not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1 >> LOAD-SIZE is too small >> ok >> >> I tried usb2 and usb3 on two machines and then I boot to yaboot, on the >> HD. >> Anyone have any thoughts about what is going on? Any OF commands I >> could run to find out more info here? >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> > > > -- > Regards > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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