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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