Re: Netinstall grief on iMac G5

[Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au>]

Sascha Frey wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:58 +0930, Mike Hore wrote:
>   
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I downloaded the netinstall iso image, burned a CD, but I can't boot off 
> > it.  Am I supposed to do something else?
> >
> > I already have yaboot installed, so on boot I enter "c" for a CD boot.  
> > Then I'm getting what appears to be a memory exception, then it lands me 
> > back in Open Firmware asking me to "release the keys", but it doesn't 
> > respond to the keyboard or anything, and I have to do a hard reboot.
> >     
>
> When did you get this exception message?
> Did you see a message like this: "Welcome to Debian... This is a Debian
> installation CDROM"?
>
> If yes, what did you enter at the "boot:" prompt?
> Maybe you just loaded the 32bit kernel, which does not work on G5 Macs.
> Try install64 or expert64.
>   

Ah, thanks, that was the answer!!!   I was getting half a screen of 
info, and with my previous experience of Ubuntu I just hit return at the 
boot: prompt instead of reading the options.  Actually the correct one 
for me is install-power4.

This really needs to be documented in the fine Manual -- well if it is I 
didn't see it, but I guess I'm a bit impatient so I might have missed it.

Now to work out what CD driver package I should be using...

Cheers,  Mike.

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         Mike Hore        mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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