Yellow Dog Linux General

TOPIC: How to boot an Install from your drive through Open Firmware



Introduction
If you are unable to boot from the YDL Install CD, you may alternatively, if Mac OS is installed, boot from the drive.
  1. Boot into Mac OS
  2. Insert the YDL Install CD
  3. Double click on the CD icon, and again on the 'install' folder.
  4. Drag all files in this folder to the System Folder on the Mac OS drive
  5. Reboot the computer and IMMEDIATELY hold:

    OPTION-COMMAND-O-F
    boot hd:,\\yaboot [ENTER]
You may see some error msgs, but no worries, it all works well :)
This HOWTO was written by David Gelvin, Terra Soft Solutions



 
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