Thanks for the very direct and quick reply! I read something about this somewhere in my reading of other debian-powerpc messages, but it was in a message from Ethan and others about the technical reasons why it wasn't working and that the r1 CD's needed to be updated.
I didn't completely understand the discussion, but now something clicked and it makes sense. (I'm slowly figuring out this unfamiliar boot process that Apples use.) Your message fills in a gap in my understanding... they were talking about doing the boot from the MacOS partition... yours shows how to get it to boot from CD-ROM. Thank you very much. I'm on my way out to the store to pick up a couple of AirPort cards (and a WaveLAN card for the PC laptop if I can find one locally) and I'll keep everyone updated on my progress on those as well as the overall installation. I have a friend who's gotten his mixed AirPort/WaveLAN network working nicely, and I'm having "wireless envy". When I called him the other day he was sitting out at his apartment complex's swimming pool with his iBook running Linux doing a download from his DSL line four-stories up... I decided that wireless' time has come. MUST HAVE TOYS! :) /me is hopelessly addicted to being "first on the block"... Thanks a ton, John. Gotta hussle off to the store so I can get back here and play some more... :) Nate John Winters wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Long-time linux user, new to Mac. Bought a nifty little iMac DV SE (the > > 500Mhz G3 version) last weekend and have been messing around with it. > > Nice machine! > > How far through bugdom have you got? > > > Read through all the Debian docs and Ethan's stuff on his site. Nice > > job, guys. > > > > Created a Debian-PPC ISO image and burnt a CD-R to "ease" installation. > > > > Repartitioned the drive with Apple's tool to have a small partition up > > front for the boot gymnastics, an HFS+ partition for OS9, and a bunch > > (20 MB) of unallocated space to put other toys in (OS X, Linux). > > > > The plan was to then boot from the CD-R and finish up with mac-fdisk. > > > > >From reading, I thought that the Debian-PPC CD-R should have been > > bootable. I know about holding down C during the boot, etc. It won't > > boot. It *is* perfectly readable however. > > I can answer this one (having just trodden the same path). > > Go into open firmware (Apple-Alt-O-F at boot) and type: > > boot cd:,\\yaboot > > and you'll be there. The imac is apparently too new for the CD. > > John > > -- > John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England. > > The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux CDs in the UK > See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/
