On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:04:46PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:33:37PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > > | Not the original poster, so please excuse me jumping in here. > | > | I'm going to attempt installing Sarge on my brother's G3 beige (old > | world), this weekend. Were you able to boot directly from the cd, or > | did you need to boot from floppy? Any pointers welcome -- I'm in the > | process of reading the Debian Mac install instructions, but pointers > | always welcome. > > From what I've read, oldworld systems can't boot from cds. >
I installed a beige G3 which is oldworld AFAIK. I installed the initial system from floppies, and the rest from the network, no experience with cds I'm afraid. The problem is that it can't boot itself directly to linux, I had to use bootX to boot linux through mac os (I have 8 installed). > I'm not a mac expert, though. I've only installed on two G4s (well, I > think the first was a G4; it was newworld at any rate). The first > time was my first experience with a mac and was a proof-of-concept > installation that was wiped out shortly afterwards (~6 months ago). > > My recommendation is to read a lot of documentation on-line > (particularly if you are not familiar with Apple hardware and its > disk partitioning and booting organization). Also, use the sarge rc1 > installer. This worked really well for me this time around. > > HTH, > -D > > -- > If you want to know what God thinks about money, > just look at the people He gives it to. > -- Old Irish Saying > > www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
