[K12OSN] Slightly OT- installing Yellow Dog

[Andrew Fisk]

Too many holes to make a good aquarium  -- you need the old all in  
one design or maybe an i-mac.


Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
441 Beaver Street
Suite 202
Sewickley, PA 15143
Phone (412) 749-0162
Fax: (412) 749-0203
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com

On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Keith Olson wrote:

> .....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
>> 441 Beaver Street
>> Suite 202
>> Sewickley, PA 15143
>> Phone (412) 749-0162
>> Fax: (412) 749-0203
>> andy at spitcomp.com
>> www.spitcomp.com
>>
>> 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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