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.
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*------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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