[juneau-lug] Re: Stephen, a question about that PowerPC

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:46:24 -0800
"Nels Tomlinson" <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can boot from the MacOS 7.6 CD you gave me, but it can't find any 
> drives to install on.   The machine doesn't seem to boot from the 7.5 CD 
> nor from a Gentoo live CD I found,
> 
> It seems to boot from a Debian boot floppy, but it never lights up the 
> monitor, so something isn't right.
> 
PowerMacs from that era are often very picky about what they boot & how they do 
it.  NetBSD has a lot of information on those boxes that might be helpful.  
There's a compatibility chart here:

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http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
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Cheers,

James

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