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Re: ppc

 

On 9/13/12 8:23 PM, ∅ wrote:
> great news! i may have a new g4 machine to do testing on. i really need someone to help me with doing it all by usb. that would make it possible for me to do this easily on more than one machine. i can't seem to find anything that isn't as old as hardy and i'm not sure it's relevant. but i need help starting with preparing the drive. anyone?
> 
> wxl
> 
What worked for me for a while was to copy over the iso image using dd.

To boot from usb hold down cmd+opt+o+f while the machine powers on.
Then at the openfirmware prompt enter

	boot usb1/disk@1:2,\\yaboot

Sometimes it was usb1 other times usb0

Regards,
/Lars


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