[K12OSN] Slightly OT- installing Yellow Dog

[Keith Olson]

.....or you could use it as a funky aquarium.....<G>

Keith Olson
K-Soft Consulting

Andrew Fisk wrote:

> Are you using an Apple brand keyboard -- if not wait till you get the  
> happy mac icon at startup before holding down the C -- some third  
> party keyboards seem to confuse the Mac
>
> Other thoughts -- do you have the hard drive set as your startup disk  
> -- just like on an intel box -- if you tell it to boot from a hard  
> drive it won't boot from CD -- you might even try specifying the CD  
> as your boot disk.
>
> Last but not least the tried and true zap the parameter ram (turn the  
> machine on while holding down Command - option -- P - R) and wait for  
> the startup chimes to sound again then try the C option again.
>
> If none of that works you might want to unplug the internal drive and  
> make sure your CD will boot the machine
>
> Last but not least -- the boat anchor suggestion has merit
>
>
> Andy
> Spitfire Computer Services
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>
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Eric Brown wrote:
>
>> A while back, I asked questions on getting a beige Mac G3 to  netboot 
>> off of
>> K12LTSP 4.4.0.  I found out that I couldn't.
>>
>> The suggestion was to try to install Yellow Dog Linux, and have it  
>> work with
>> the server.  I've burned YD 4.0.1 to cd, stuck it in the CD,  
>> shutdown, start
>> while holding down the C key, and the machine still boots into  OS9.  
>> I have
>> a rather large bias against Macs, and this is proving everything  
>> I've always
>> thougth to be true.  I'd like to make this a usable machine.  Any
>> suggestions would be greatly appricated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>> Viva la Open Source!
>>
>>
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