Re: redhat on apple Mac

From: Nathan (spamhole_at_structuredthought.org)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:08:34 -0500

BH861839 wrote:
> I have been given an old apple, and want to Redhat on it, but i cant get it to
> boot from the CD or from the Floppy, im new to apple's any ideas?
>
> thanks

First, what kind of apple is it? If it's not at least a 68k Mac
(Motorola 68000 processor), it likely won't give you any luck at all.

Next, you have to make sure you have a PPC version of RedHat (Yellow Dog
3.0 Sirius is a pretty good one).

Finally, when you have all of that, hold down the 'c' key while powering
on to get the Mac to boot from CD.

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