[K12OSN] Booting macs

"Terrell Prudé, Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Fri Aug 26 02:08:44 UTC 2005


Yellow Dog Linux works with 5400's doing this.  I used YDL 2.3.

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cliebow at downeast.net wrote:

>if they are old world gv3 without openfirmware..they wont netboot..it is
>probably possible to do chubby client with a kernel on the mac hard
>drive..but i dont know of anyone doing it..i played long enough to find the
>mklinux boot loadr wont work..chuck\
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've just gotten two mac G3/266mhz machines I would like to try and get
>>going on my k12ltsp network.  I'm running 4.4.0 of k12ltsp.
>>
>>When I power up the mac, I just can't seem to get it to boot from the
>>network.  I've tried holding down the n key while booting (I held it down
>>when powering on), I googled and found that I might try open
>>apple+option+o+f (again, while powering on).  I've also tried holding
>>several other combinations of all these with no luck.
>>
>>These things take 2 or 3 minutes to get to the "welcome to mac os 9.2"
>>screen.
>>
>>My questions are:
>>
>>Am I holding down the wrong buttons?  At the wrong time?  What's the correct
>>combination?
>>
>>When can I tell if I'm successful or not?  Should I see that stupid smiling
>>mac?
>>
>>All help is greatly welcome.
>>Thanks,
>>Eric
>>
>>Viva la Open Source!
>>
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