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Re: Booting from CD on PowerMacintosh 7600/132



On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:44:45PM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote:
> Any suggestion how do I get a PowerMacintosh 7600/132 to boot from CD?
> 
> Section 5.2 of the installation manual (woody) suggests holding 
> command,option,shift, and delete while starting up.  This doesn't seem to 
> work for me.

Oldworld powermacs will not boot from Debian CDs, because a free-software 
version of the needed CD driver is not available. You should be able to 
boot from a floppy, then install from the CD.

I added a note to this effect in the manual.

-- 
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*


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