Non-booting PPC DVD
Colin Charles
byte at aeon.com.my
Fri Mar 18 08:11:37 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:47 -0800, Sean Earp wrote:
> I just ran headfirst into bug 151234
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234) whereby
> the FC4T1 DVD is not bootable. (whoops!) Maybe now that Linus Torvalds
> is using a Power Mac
> (http://news.com.com/Torvalds+switches+to+Apple/2100-1003_3
> -5606030.html) he can help troubleshoot some of these issues ;)
Maybe; he's been using one for a while, and last I recall, it was a
Yellow Dog based machine
> In any case, does anyone have any instructions on making the install
> work on a Power Mac? I would love to help report bugs, but it's hard
Basically look for a boot.iso that matches your arch, after loopback
mounting the dvd, and then do an nfs install with the ISO image
> to do when I can't install the OS in the first place. I have seen some
> references to mounting the ISO and extracting the boot CD and/or using
> Paul's USB Boot Image (http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ppcboot.img)
> but when I attempt to mount the ISO or the boot image using the Disk
> Utility on OS X, I get a message that there are no mountable
> filesystems.
I'll re-write the wonderful install howto (which should hopefully go
away soon), and post information about htat here
> For that matter, the burned DVD is not readable from within OS X
> (although the i386 version is...)
Thats odd
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