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Re: Initial Boot



On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:35:50AM +0000, Jarrod Wells wrote:
> I am a newbie Linux user that has previously used Linux on a friends' PC.
> Now that I have a G4 cube, and heard about the macintosh Debian
> distribution, I had him burn the CD .iso files for me so that I can install
> it.  Somehow, the CD is not bootable, so I created a Mac OS Standard
> partition and copied the files to there.  Still, the partition is not
> bootable.  I feel that I either need to get rid of some files I don't really
> need or adjust the "yaboot.conf" file.  I'm not really sure, because I have
> spent over two weeks trying to start the Debian installation at the least.
> Could you please help?  It is greatly appreciated.

sounds like apple invented a new machine tag for OpenFirmware that is
missing from the ofboot script.  enter OpenFirmware by holding down
the command option o f keys at boot and you will get a white screen
with a 0 > prompt, at that prompt type:

boot cd:,\\yaboot

with the debian boot CD in the CDROM.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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