[K12OSN] Slightly OT- installing Yellow Dog

[Andrew Fisk]

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
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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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