Re: Bootable offical Debian-CD
otto.wyss@bluewin.ch (Otto Wyss) writes:
> I've now tried all version of the first Debian Potato rev1-4 CD plus
> the GNU/Darwin-CD but none does boot on my b&w G3. Of course any
> MacOS CD does boot correctly.
Potato r4 isn't bootable on PowerPC, although earlier releases should
be.
> When I try to boot with the CD pressing the C-key, the CD drive
> lights starts flickerling and the display changes to white. But
> nothing happens until after a long wait the harddisk starts and
> MacOS9 is booted.
Hmmmm. Did you try booting with 'video=ofonly'?
By the way, I've found netbooting is probably the most reliable method
(albeit a bit hard to set up).
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