Re: making a cd bootable for a mac
Not really. In what way does it fail? Does the CD try to boot and
give a blank screen? Do you get a prompt?
Did you remember (i know, this needs to be more documented) to hold
down C to boot from CD?
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:00:22PM -0400, matthewk wrote:
> Are there any known issues with booting on the newest macs? The cd
> I've made here doesn't seem to work.
>
> matt kurpiewski
>
> --On Thursday, September 7, 2000 2:49 PM -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz
> <dan@debian.org> wrote:r
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> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:51:37AM -0400, Matthew Kurpiewski wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm a long time Debian/intel user who decided to switch to the powerpc
> >> platform. Anyhow, I have a new Sage imac DV+ I'm just dying to get
> >> debian installed to. However, being relatively new to the mac,
> >> constructing mac bootable cd's from the debian .iso is a bit of mystery
> >> to me. Do I have to burn it on a mac to make it bootable? Are there
> >> any other considerations I should know about when burning the cd? Any
> >> pointers would be greatly appreciated. Like I said, I'm a bit anxious
> >> to get debian up and running. I'm not on the list so please cc:
> >> matthewk@pitt.edu
> >
> > Nope. It should be bootable no matter how it is burnt.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\
> > | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
> > | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
> > | dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu |
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Dan
/--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\
| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
| dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu |
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