Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:32:02PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hello Ethan and everyone! > > potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely > useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. > (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not to

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Philippe
Hello Ethan and everyone! potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not too bad, is it?) What follows might be just an esthetic question (sinc

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:54:38AM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > thanks a lot for the reply > (1) booting with the 'c' key held down doesn't work. It boots to MAC OS > after checking the cdrom, then my two hard drive partitions (one of which > is empty, the one if want to put debian linux

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Philippe
Hi Ethan, thanks a lot for the reply (1) booting with the 'c' key held down doesn't work. It boots to MAC OS after checking the cdrom, then my two hard drive partitions (one of which is empty, the one if want to put debian linux on!) I tried both CDs, either holding down the 'c' key all the time,

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:02:42PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Pr

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-23 Thread ktb
Philippe wrote: > > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Program Format. > > my boot-device line

iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-23 Thread Philippe
I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 unrecognized Client Program Format. my boot-device line reads: boot-device cd: