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Join Date: May 2004
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Hey hey!
So I have this old iBook... it is the clamshell 300Mhz, no-firewire version. It boots off an OS9 cd, OSX.4, and Darwin cd just fine... but it fails at booting ANY linux based PPC bootable CD I toss at it. . . and it does not stop there, I tried OpenBSD, and NetBSD based bootable cds that are known to work on this model to no luck. So I thought, must be an older firmware... I installed OS9, updated the firmware, but that did not get it booting a non-apple OS either. I know the hardware works... boots, installs, and runs OS9 and 10.3/4 just fine. The iBook is going to be used as a network slave/server, so I really don't want it to be running OSX. Having only the 288MiBs of RAM, running OSX would not be desired. Besides, I won't be looking at it much, so a groovy desktop is not needed. My goal is to install Linux, or NetBSD. Any suggestions on the booting issue? (and I've tried resetting the PRAM) Thanks, Wickers no sig, how's that for being a rebel! Last edited by Wickers : 2005-08-04 at 22:09. |
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reticulating your mom
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IIRC you have to do something in open firmware before it'll install...
Could somebody elaborate? |
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