Subject: Re: Installing YDL 2.0
From: David C. Hacker, DVM (dh55145@alltel.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 21:49:20 MDT
You can't boot a linux CD on an old world ROM mac. You have to have a
working install of Mac OS in order to run BootX and boot linux Only new
world ROM machines like the iMac and Blue and White Pmacs will boot directly
into linux
> From: john@pcc.com (John Canning)
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Installing YDL 2.0
>
> On Sat Jul 7 19:46:19 2001 downtime null wrote:
>>
>> i was trying to install YDL 2.0 on a Power Mac 7300/200... i unpacked the
>> BootX loader and install it. then i restarted and chose the
>> ramdisk-text.image.gz. it came up to the installer, i chose custom and in the
>> partitioning, i removed all the Mac partitions and created a 10 meg boot, 128
>> meg swap and the rest (1.9 gig) linux native. then the installer went to the
>> formatting part and died. now i'm stuck. no Mac OS install media and i can't
>> figure out an alternate way to boot the system. is there and install disk or
>> something? is there any way to boot to the cdrom?
>>
>
> Try rebooting and holding down the C key; that tells most Macs to
> boot from the CD-ROM drive.
>
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