On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 13:33 +0100, Paul Scally wrote: > > Hi, I will attending tonight, Jona.. G and I will be building one or > more of his Sparc boxes. > > Mixed success with Mini Mac tried finnix distro, works and used OpenBoot > (OB) PROM as well. Repaced PATA on G4 with > new 2.5 inch disk on Saturday [only the Intel Mini Macs use SATA disks]. > > Unfortunately will not boot first Debian PPC CD, "Cannot read device or > file" used correct command > from OB prompt which is: > > O> boot cd:,\install\yaboot > > CD has been stuck since Saturday, and no OB commands eject cd etc. seem > to work. Learnt a lot but > as Apple will not allow you to boot from USB, it is going to be a bit > more challenging involving Firewire etc. > not yet certain but I do give up easily.
I've had Debian installed on a number of PPC Mac Minis, sounds like your CD drive is borked, I'll see if I can find a spare from my stash; bring the Mac Mini with you tonight! Have you tried powering on with the mouse button held down? That ejects the CD from most Apple things. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
