I have a power mac g4, 450 mz AGP with 512 mb ram, and I cannot start from any ISO cd. I downloaded the latest version 4.0.1 orion. What do you recomend both, toast settings for the cd burn, and which is the most apropriate version?
Renato Henriques maclinux --- Cian Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > You will -have- to 'mess with the MacOS' to create a > partition to > install Linux from > > No OldWorld machins can boot Linux from the CD. You > need a tool called > BootX, and a kernel image/initial ramdisk image to > do so - its > chainloaded throgh MacOS itself. > > There is a good howto on the Yellowdog Forums > (http://www.yellowdog-board.com). I can't link > directly as the forums > appear to be down right now, or are not routing > here. > > Cian > > On 03/06/05, Ron Barthold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I have just acquired a 'oldworld' powerpc and am > trying to install linux on > > it. I have no experience with apple. It boots up > in OS 9.2 but the > > hardware info screen CD shows no media inserted > even if I put a burned iso > > image of disk one of yellowdog. I burned it on a > PC. I have read that this > > model can not boot from CD. How else can I get it > to boot up and run linux > > installation without messing with the MAC OS. Any > ideas would be > > appreciated. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > any comments. > > > > Thanks > > > > Ron > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > > > -- > ------------------------- > "We're busy running out of time" > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail, cada vez melhor: agora com 1GB de espa�o gr�tis! http://mail.yahoo.com.br _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
