boot problem with G4

[Peter Teunissen]

Hi Felix,

As far as I know, you'd have to boot from your system running in OSX,  
using yaboot. The system reboots then from a ram disk with a special  
Linux kernel, containing the YDL installer. It's all in the 'Guide to  
installation':
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide- 
single.pdf


Groet,


Peter Teunissen

On 28-mrt-04, at 20:42, felix werner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a big problem with my G4 FW 800 (OS 10.2.3, 1 GHz PowerPC G4).
> I like to install yellowdog. For this reason I have to boot my G4 from  
> the yellowdog installing CD, but
> that seems to be impossible. It just boots from the HD or original  
> Jaguar-CD.
> It would be great if somebody has a solution to this problem.
> I have downloaded  the sirius 3.0.1 version, because I thougt that it  
> support my mac, because I had
> this problem with a Debian Linux before.
>
> greetings felix
>
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