Re: PowerMac 4400/200 32M RAM
Chris Tillman <tillman@voicetrak.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:13:15PM +0000, John Fremlin wrote:
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>> How do we stop the monitor going out of sync? Is there a bootloader
>> command line or something anywhere?
In fact this was "fixed" by changing the monitor to an Apple Multiple
Scan 15AV.
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> You can also boot the Debian installer from BootX. Put the 'linux' file
> from the distribution in the Linux Kernels folder, and set the root file to
> root.bin in the Options. Be sure when you download not to save linux as
> SimpleText. It must be binary.
Thanks, that's more or less what we did in the end! We've got debian
woody installed OK now
>> We can't boot into yellowdog anymore because the install fscked up as
>> it was making the root fs, razing our MacOS to the ground. Is there
>> any small Mac system disk with a CD driver so we can bootstrap
>> yellowdog from CD again?
>>
>
> There's a MacOS 8.1 floppy image at the apple site, search for Disk
> Tools. But most Macs can boot CDs without a system, did you hold
> the C key down?
The 8.1 floppy image does not include the CD drive driver (the Apple
CD-ROM Extension). Copying the one from 7.6.1 across worked though.
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