May be, if Greg is reading this, he can try just for a moment, to boot from the usb by holding down the option-key on the mac power on chime . . . (?) If it works for him too, i'd presume that's a rule for the OF G4 . . .
Cheers. 2012/10/18 Phill Whiteside <[email protected]>: > Hi Uli, > > Hmm, seems different Macs use different key command to access the usb > device.... What a surprise :/ > > If you and Greg can discuss your findings and update the wiki[1] > accordingly. > > Regards, > > Phill. > 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/PPC > > > On 18 October 2012 20:03, UH <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just a small notice which, eventually is worht to be mentioned on some >> faq: Right now i'm trying to install via alternate lubuntu 12.10 to my >> PB G4 17". Since, in case of the alternate Greg's OpenFirmware boot >> commandline did not work, i tried booting keeping down the Option-key >> and, voilà, the usb-stick appeared within the bootable options. If >> that is a rule for all OpenFirmware Macs would be easier to direct the >> people to this (?) >> >> Cheers, Uli >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
