Re: no password on G4

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Klaus Becker wrote:
> Finally I found a CDROM. But I tried to boot on a Knoppix CD and to different 
> Debian CDs, without success.

I don't think a powerpc version of Knoppix has ever existed.

> I hold down "C" on booting and then I press again "c" to boot on CD. The 
> system tries, but it does not work, with none of the 3 CDs. It always comes 
> back to the prompt asking me to press "c" or "l".
> 
> The 2 Debian CDs are i386 netinstall CDs. Even if it's not the right CD, they 
> must not be completely ignored, ther should at least be an error message I 
> think.

I would not expect them to do anything.  They don't contain powerpc boot code.

-- 
Len Sorensen