Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony Roy
Cheers dude - I'll give it a shot tomorrow! Off to bed now... ... > At the prompt, type: > boot cd:,\\:tbxi -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony Roy
> > At the prompt, type: > > boot cd:,\\:tbxi Man - you are a genius. Don't know where you dragged that bit of black magic up from, but the Gentoo boot prompt loaded up like a dream! So the job for the weekend is the install... Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; if the mac is on, switch it off. Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. On a B&W Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). Tap the power switch (kee

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi Holly, > Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as > if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. > How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: > Hi MT, > > >>1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will >> appear on >>the desktop). > > > Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. > > >>2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), >> select >>'System

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi MT, > 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will > appear on > the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. > 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), > select > 'System Preferences' > > 3) Select '

RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD. Ant, I'm actually running a B&W G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can t

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Ant, I'm actually running a B&W G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the