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Re: making a cd bootable for a mac
--On Thursday, September 7, 2000 3:12 PM -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:r 


Not really.  In what way does it fail?  Does the CD try to boot and
give a blank screen?  Do you get a prompt?
Not quite, it doesn't recognize the disk as being bootable. That's about it. Startup Disk says the same thing, as does System Disk 3.1 from the Darwin dist. That's why I wondered if there was anything else I needed to do to make it bootable. The cd was burnt with Easy cd creator under windows, but I guess that shouldn't be 
the problem.


Did you remember (i know, this needs to be more documented) to hold
down C to boot from CD?


hehe, yes, many times in fact.
I guess I'm also curious if there is anyway to boot from the hard disk and then install from the cd, but I haven't found any documentation on this. Could be because it's not possible. Anyhow, suggestions on alternate install methods are welcome, but, I have no 
removeable media, and no other machine to boot it from.

matt kurpiewski



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

> 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

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|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
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