Re: Imac CD install problem

2001-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > You may want to subscribe to the debian-powerpc (or is it debian-ppc?) > mailing list and ask questions there. You're much more likely to hit > someone who's knowledgeable about the iMac platform there. yes indeed, though his problem l

Re: Imac CD install problem

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
You may want to subscribe to the debian-powerpc (or is it debian-ppc?) mailing list and ask questions there. You're much more likely to hit someone who's knowledgeable about the iMac platform there. I've been (very very slowly) gathering some information about how to load Debian on my new iMac DV

Re: Imac CD install problem

2000-12-31 Thread Hans
Probably of little help, but I saw the same problem occur at an install party recently but on an Intel machine. Turned out the problem was a CD burned when Potato wasn't stable yet or a wrong ISO-image, we never found out. I popped in my copy of stable Potato and it worked. Did you burn the CD fr

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:32:02PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hello Ethan and everyone! > > potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely > useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. > (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not to

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Philippe
Hello Ethan and everyone! potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not too bad, is it?) What follows might be just an esthetic question (sinc

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Philippe
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,

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:02:42PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Pr

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-23 Thread ktb
Philippe wrote: > > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Program Format. > > my boot-device line

Re: iMac

1998-09-19 Thread Shaleh
ryan winner wrote: > > Will the Debian MkLinux work on the iMac? > RYAN Ryan, mklinux is NOT Debian Linux. That is the one supported by Apple. Ours is pure PPC code. And no, not yet. No one does. The iMac is all USB, so we have to get USB support in Linux. It is happening quickly. Prolly a