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I had an update on my Pismo (it's now a G4...) and thus I have to reinstall my system. The only problem is that my cd drive has broken down... and of coursen mac's don't have floppy drives!
The only options I think I have by now are the firewire CD drive I have, and the Mac OS X Tiger partition that's at the end of my 60gig disk. Can I somehow boot a debian disk on the firewire drive? It looks like it works when I press "C" at boot, but it hangs. Or maybe boot in OS X and write somthing to my Linux partition?
I just read that it was possible to install from hdd? Is that true? 'cause if it is, I can just put the required files on my disk and boot from that partition, or did I miss something?
I am having similar issues. I need to boot from a cd in my external firewire drive cause my iMac DVs internal drive is bad. Anyone know a way of doing this with openfirmware? I would rather just boot from the cd and format the hard drive from there.
BTW I've read about installing from the hd but I need to be able to boot live cds for school work.
just a quick reply to sy that I did it. But I still have top move my bookmarks from my backup to this machine, so I won't be able to get you the right explanaitions right now. I also don't have a permanent connexion by now because I just moved.
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