[K12OSN] Booting macs

[cliebow at downeast.net]

perhaps the wrong style keyboard??seems like i switched to or from sb
keyboard..
> Yellow Dog Linux works with 5400's doing this.  I used YDL 2.3.
> 
> --TP
> 
> cliebow at downeast.net wrote:
> 
> >if they are old world gv3 without openfirmware..they wont netboot..it is
> >probably possible to do chubby client with a kernel on the mac hard
> >drive..but i dont know of anyone doing it..i played long enough to find the
> >mklinux boot loadr wont work..chuck\
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I've just gotten two mac G3/266mhz machines I would like to try and get
> >>going on my k12ltsp network.  I'm running 4.4.0 of k12ltsp.
> >>
> >>When I power up the mac, I just can't seem to get it to boot from the
> >>network.  I've tried holding down the n key while booting (I held it down
> >>when powering on), I googled and found that I might try open
> >>apple+option+o+f (again, while powering on).  I've also tried holding
> >>several other combinations of all these with no luck.
> >>
> >>These things take 2 or 3 minutes to get to the "welcome to mac os 9.2"
> >>screen.
> >>
> >>My questions are:
> >>
> >>Am I holding down the wrong buttons?  At the wrong time?  What's the
correct
> >>combination?
> >>
> >>When can I tell if I'm successful or not?  Should I see that stupid smiling
> >>mac?
> >>
> >>All help is greatly welcome.
> >>Thanks,
> >>Eric
> >>
> >>Viva la Open Source!
> >>
> >>
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