Re: Help Installing on a Blue and White G3
On 6/7/05, Jeffry Asbury <jasbury@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody, I have been a long time debian user and i recently
> decided to attempt to install sarge on an old Mac Blue and White G3.
> This so far it seems that i don't have the where-with-all to succede
> in doing this. I downloaded the PPC install discs and booted from
> those CDs but when i get to Yaboot it had some kind of error reading
> the yaboot.conf and whatever i try to boot the installer it fails.
> What exactly do i need to do to start the installer? I went over and
> over the install guide and can't figure out what is going wrong.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
Jeff,
How did you partition your drive ? You need an Apple boot
partition in which
to install the yaboot stuff. What exactly do you see when you boot up
your B&W ?
cheers,
mehul
p.s. I'm running on a B&W G3 Rev 1
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Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com
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