Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Yoel Jacobsen
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Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Hey all, I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original iMac, which is one of the first Bondi blue ones ... from what your install guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though,

Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
One of the first things I tried was the little Press C at the chime trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I then ejected and re-inserted the disk tray, an was given a Mac OS

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12:18AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: One of the first things I tried was the little Press C at the chime trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so that can't be the issue. -Original Message- From: Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:30 To: John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net Cc:

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:52:34AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so that can't be the issue. I forgot what the initial message had said. I would be surprised if it wasn't able to read CD-Rs in general (although my

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
Yes, it works on other machines, and I've read/burnt cd-r's using this iMac before. -Original Message- From: Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:55 To: John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Yes, it works on other machines, and I've read/burnt cd-r's using this iMac before. That's interesting. So you have a CD writer on tray loading iMac. I didn't know they existed. That makes the problem even harder to understand: CD writers

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
Actually, the cd writer is a usb peripheral, but the cd tray drive has always been able to read disks I've burnt using that. I'm not even sure if it can read dvds. -Original Message- From: Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:10 To: John Wesley

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Actually, the cd writer is a usb peripheral, but the cd tray drive has always been able to read disks I've burnt using that. I'm not even sure if it can read dvds. I'm sure it can't. Only CD's. Maybe the drive is just getting old, as we