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Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB



potato is way to old for that hardware.  i suggest using woody
boot-floppies.

and don't you even think about replying with pedantic rubbish about
ibooks not having floppy drives.

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:09:22AM -0500, Bill Vinson wrote:
> Well, I downloaded the iso and verified the md5sum.  Used xcdroast to 
> burn the iso to cd.  It will mount under Linux and Windows, but not Mac 
> OS X.  If I hold down the 'c' during boot it continues to boot off the 
> hd.  If I go into OpenFirmware and use 'boot cd:\\yaboot' and other 
> strings it says 'bad nodePtr' (I believe) and that it can't load the 
> file.
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?  I haven't installed Linux on this 
> machine before.  I have over a GB waiting for it and use Debian on sever 
> x86 servers, but I am not sure what happened here :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 
>    Bill Vinson
> <billvinson@mac.com>
> 
> 
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