On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:54:38AM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > thanks a lot for the reply > (1) booting with the 'c' key held down doesn't work. It boots to MAC OS > after checking the cdrom, then my two hard drive partitions (one of which > is empty, the one if want to put debian linux on!) I tried both CDs, > either holding down the 'c' key all the time, or at different times > during the boot
then they are not mac bootable. > (2) so I might have the wrong CDs. They are the "The latest release of > Debian is 2.1 released on 9 March 2000. This CD contains this is the problem, debian 2.1 does not support powerpc. you need potato test cycle images. > but it does me no good if they're the wrong CD's. Money for me is an issue > only as a principle: although I've paid $$$$$ for a new iMac, I want to > install linux on it as cheaply as possible. Try to figure out why... :) > (3) can slink work on an newworld iMac G3 350MHz? Or must I get potatoe? no you must use potato. > (4) do I need ybin/yaboot to boot from CD ROM? I think not. debian potato CDs have yaboot burned on in such a way that holding down the c key will boot it, just like it would boot a macos CD. > (5) of course I want to install it, and I had been using Ethan's FAQ's on > ybin/yaboot, but I thought I'd first start with just booting from CD ROM. > Makes sense, doesn't it? CD booting is simplest yes > (6) how can I find out if my CDs are MAC bootable? on CD#2, there are > two binary files that are 'MAC utilities'. Binary code is getting less and > less readable these days... their names > are: .../binary-I/net/MACGATE_.DEB and .../binary-I/otherosf/MACUTILS.DEB those are just some packages for dealing with macs, they are not archetecture specific, i have those packages on my intel box. > (7) if I've got the wrong CDs, could someone > suggest to me a vendor they're happy with? im not sure where to get test cycle CDs also when you do get to installing debian, please see my installtion doc addendums for debian at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/debian this information is *critical* to a sucessful install on a newworld (like your imac) powermac. unfortunatly no one has time/interest in merging this info into the official debian docs. (i don't have the time either, and IANADD) > thank you all, no problem -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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