Installing on a PPC 5400/180

Norberto Quintanar yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:42:02 -0700 (PDT)


Mac OS first it is.  
--- Matty Sarro <stmjs09@moravian.edu> wrote:
> Hello all! I work for Moravian college. We are currently attempting
> to
> experiment with YDL on an older mac which we have available. It's a
> PowerPC
> 5400/180. The mac had been sitting in storage for quite some time
> now,
> however it booted without much of a problem. It DID however have a
> bad hard
> drive. The only hard drives we had available had already been
> formatted for
> PC's, but I'd heard that it should work either way (partitioning
> software
> would do the rest).
> 
> So, I replaced the hard drive with a 'new' 4 gig western digital
> caviar, but
> now upon booting it brings up a picture of a folder with a blinking
> question
> mark on it. I've tried booting off of the YDL cd by both holding C
> after
> booting, and by holding cmd+opt+shift+del and neither option works.
> Must I
> install one of the Mac OS's first? Or is there something else which
> I'm
> missing?
> 
> Thank you all sincerely for your help.
> 
> -Matty
> 
> 


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