Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5: Solved

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Crane
On Sep 25, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Richard Crane wrote: I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD

Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Crane
I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD debian-6.0.5-powerpc-netinst, look at files, etc. I can't boot from the

Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread MiB
25 sep 2012 kl. 23:15 skrev Richard Crane: On a G4, the same Debian CD boots from its internal DVD drive and I can go right into the installer. Disk image from dvd to USB stick. Or get a readymade USB image. Make sure you format the USB stick so it's bootable (Google for this). -- To

Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 09/25/2012 05:15 PM, Richard Crane wrote: I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD