On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:45:28AM -0600, sc wrote: > I bought some Debian PPC 2.2 CDs from Cheap Bytes. Some net guides > indicated that I could boot directly from the CD by just holding down > the C key at the beginning. Is this correct? Right now, the CD won't yes, potato r2 CDs are bootable on all NewWorld PowerMacs, except for some of the most recently released G4s, such as the TiBook. they should boot like any MacOS CD, by holding down the C key. > read at bootup. Since I can't read the CD's in MacOS 9 (oddly can > read them in X), I don't know if it's because of how the CDs were > burned, did I miss something else in the installation process, etc. the first CD is an HFS/ISO9660 hybrid filesystem it should be readable without any trouble on MacOS, not that there is any need to read the CDs from MacOS. you cannot use BootX on NewWorlds. the rest of the CDs are straight ISO9660 i believe. if you are having problems booting them, first i would suggest resetting the nvram of your machine by cold booting it while holding down `command option p r' until it reboots 3 or more times. then try holding down the C key again. you should get a yaboot prompt. if not i would say your CDs are defective. (or your machine is too new, but this should not be the case for the pismo) if you can't read the first CD from MacOS either MacOS is very broken or the CD is again defective. there is a somewhat special procedure required for making newworld bootable CDs, if its not followed correctly they won't boot. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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