Sascha Frey wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:58 +0930, Mike Hore wrote:
Hi folks,
I downloaded the netinstall iso image, burned a CD, but I can't boot off
it. Am I supposed to do something else?
I already have yaboot installed, so on boot I enter "c" for a CD boot.
Then I'm getting what appears to be a memory exception, then it lands me
back in Open Firmware asking me to "release the keys", but it doesn't
respond to the keyboard or anything, and I have to do a hard reboot.
When did you get this exception message?
Did you see a message like this: "Welcome to Debian... This is a Debian
installation CDROM"?
If yes, what did you enter at the "boot:" prompt?
Maybe you just loaded the 32bit kernel, which does not work on G5 Macs.
Try install64 or expert64.
Ah, thanks, that was the answer!!! I was getting half a screen of
info, and with my previous experience of Ubuntu I just hit return at the
boot: prompt instead of reading the options. Actually the correct one
for me is install-power4.
This really needs to be documented in the fine Manual -- well if it is I
didn't see it, but I guess I'm a bit impatient so I might have missed it.
Now to work out what CD driver package I should be using...
Cheers, Mike.
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