Installing YDL 3.0.1 From External Firewire CDROM

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

It is possible to boot the YDL CD from a device other than the internal CD
drive, but it's very difficult because you have to tell Open Firmware how to
bypass the bootscript on the CD. Your best bet in the long run is to get the
internal drive fixed, but if you insist on booting externally, e-mail me
your phone# and a good time to call, and I will attempt to walk you through
the process from memory as best I can.    -DG
-- 
"Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do."
                                                        --National Lampoon

> From: kyle kestell <kmkestell@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Installing YDL 3.0.1 From External Firewire CDROM
> 
> Hey, I have a 15" 2002 Powerbook G4 (Radion Mobility
> /w 32M Vid RAM). My internal CDROM drive is broken.
> I've been looking for information on booting the
> installation cd off of an external firewire CDROM
> drive. The external firewire drive is a LaCie 52x32x52
> CD-RW. I'm positive that my installation cd is good,
> as I've booted it as a test on my friends powerbook.
> When restarting my powerbook, I've tried holding 't'
> (which presents me with a bouncing firewire logo, but
> doesn't do much else at all), and holding
> Option-Command-Shift-Delete (which reads the cd,
> begins a boot, flashes what looks like could be an
> error message, and then boots OS X off of the
> harddrive as normal.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Is booting the installation CD off of an external
> firewire disk even possible?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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