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Re: New at this



On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:46:50 +0200, Eric Deveaud composed:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote:
> 
> 
> > Well, I have an "old world" PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it.  I have
> > 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box.  I have
> > downloaded the first installation .iso and cut it; I don't know where to go
> > now.  I can't figure how to get it to boot from the CD I made.
> 
> This machine is of familly "OldWorld PowerPC" you could not boot it from
> the debian CD. You should use BootX, in order to boot

or like viani said, quik. double-check /etc/quik.conf to make sure it's
botting from the right kernel, and a suggestion: set the "100" delay to
something between 20 and 50, it'll boot a little faster from OF
(openfirmware).

simon

> 
> 	Eric



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