On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:19:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matt Kraai > > | On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:35:30AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > | > is it possible to use floppies formatted for 1.6 M on the powerpc? > | > If so, we will use the 'full' busybox-cvs-udeb; if not it might be > | > very hard to build powerpc floppies. > | > | I don't know, my iBook2 doesn't have a floppy drive. I don't know > | if you can even boot a Mac from a floppy. > > you can, it's the only way to boot oldworlds, iirc, at least.
Well, not the only way. BootX can boot the installer from or a linux installation from MacOS, and quik can boot an already-installed system. Sometimes. But no CD booting anyway. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
