Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

[Bill Vinson <billvinson@mac.com>]

Meant to send this to the list, sorry, so here goes...

Begin forwarded message:

> Thanks for the reply,
>
> I know that boot-floppies on PPC don't mean floppies, but I am kinda 
> new to Linux on ppc.  In x86 I would just install bare woody and 
> immediately 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to woody.  How do I get a cdimage 
> for woody.  Do I need to use the pseudo image kit?  Is there any 
> problem with doing it from an x86 machine?
>
> Thanks and pardon my inexperience here,
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 04:06 AM, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > 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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