Re: Installing Debian on an iMac G5 - stable and testing d-i fail

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> >Can you try booting the daily builds ? These are at : 
> >
> >  http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/
> >
> >or :
> >
> >  http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/cdrom64/
> >
> >Get the initrd.gz and vmlinux on a cd or tftp boot server, write the 
> >adequate
> >yaboot.conf, and try them out.
> 
> So, I download both files, put them in the install/power4 directory of 
> the cd image I already have and then I create a bootable CD.  Is that 
> right?  I don't know how to create a bootable CD, I hope I find a howto 
> on that for powerpc.

You need yaboot and a suitable yaboot.conf too, i guess.

Look at debian-cd source code for the suitable mkisofs flags.

Friendly,

Sven Luther