Re: I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso
Well? when I use yaboot? it skips loading from the CD? then it boots from my ordinary MacOS partition?
On tirsdag 7. november 2000, Nelson Abramson <pogtal@erols.com> wrote:
>Gjermund Thorsen wrote:
>
>> on my G4/450MP? but i never reach amything that looks like
>Linux? I tried with bootX? but no luck?
>>
>> I would like to do the same as in RHat or already installed deb:
>> dd fs=1440k IFS="root.bin" OFS="/dev/fd0"
>>
>> but how do I do that from Mac?
>
>You need to use yaboot to boot the G4. If you have a cd (which
>I assume you do based on the message
>subject), you need to boot to Open Firmware and manually boot
>the cd since the yaboot script doesn't
>recognize your machine correctly (the one on the cd). There
>are plenty of instructions in the debian
>archives and connected with the yaboot and ybin web pages that
>describe how to do this.
>
>HTH
>--Nelson Abramson
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