On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:11:09PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> >> There's no CD image, so instead you'll have use MacOS and Open Firmware
> >> to set up yaboot and the ramdisk image. Once you boot the woody
> >> install disks, I think you can use your
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
>> There's no CD image, so instead you'll have use MacOS and Open Firmware
>> to set up yaboot and the ramdisk image. Once you boot the woody
>> install disks, I think you can use your potato CD as the source medium
>> (Ethan, will this work?).
>
> no, we
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:48:37AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Note: If you want to use woody boot-floppies as Ethan suggests, you can
> get them at your local mirror in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc .
> There's no CD image, so instead you'll have use MacOS and Open Firmware to
> set up y
Note: If you want to use woody boot-floppies as Ethan suggests, you can
get them at your local mirror in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc .
There's no CD image, so instead you'll have use MacOS and Open Firmware to
set up yaboot and the ramdisk image. Once you boot the woody install
disks, I
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:49:54PM -0700, Jeffrey C. Long wrote:
> herein lies one of the problems. a g4 doesn't have a floppy drive. i
> attempted
and why does that matter?
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herein lies one of the problems. a g4 doesn't have a floppy drive. i attempted
to make a boot c.d. out of the downloaded iso, but only got a data c.d.
that was readable, but not bootable.
i downloaded the most recent debian c.d. only about a week ago. how would
i discriminate between what i dow
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:11:51AM -0700, Jeffrey C. Long wrote:
> I've successfully installed debian on my G4 on an external scsi hard drive,
> including a bootstrap partition, and (i assume) accurately set the boot
> parameters of yaboot through the instructions given in the debian install
> inst
reinstall using woody boot-floppies.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:16:43PM -0700, Jeffrey C. Long wrote:
> >> upon boot, yaboot successfully launches and shows me an icon of the
> >> linux harddrive, but when it is selected, it says it cannot find the
> >> kernel.
> >
> >Are you referring to the gra
>> upon boot, yaboot successfully launches and shows me an icon of the
>> linux harddrive, but when it is selected, it says it cannot find the
>> kernel.
>
>Are you referring to the graphical boot menu that appears when you hold
>down 'option' during boot?
yes.
>If you boot from the installation
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jeffrey C. Long wrote:
> upon boot, yaboot successfully launches and shows me an icon of the
> linux harddrive, but when it is selected, it says it cannot find the
> kernel.
Are you referring to the graphical boot menu that appears when you hold
down 'option' dur
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