On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > Rick wrote: > > > Now the part of debian-installer that died on me last night has an > > > easy fix: Simply do not install any boot loader at all for that > > > subarchitecture. > > > > Rick, Quik can easily be used to boot from CD, no problem, sadly it > > cannot be used to boot from floppies, and thus cannot be used to install > > debian on a blank disk. > > > > I'm glad to hear that quik can be used to boot CDs. Sometime if > you have the time, I'd like to hear how that's done.
Problem is that it then needs the mac os 9 cd driver, which is probably loads more non-free than anything we have considered upto now. > In either case, under my proposal, once the user has gone to the > trouble of setting up MacOS and BootX for the install process, > they might as well continue to use that setup for booting their > production system. Unless you (or someone) can come up with a > foolproof way of packaging quik in a bootloader installer. miboot should be able to do that just as fine. > I'll do whatever I can to help with testing. But if it drags out, > there *is* always the "no boot loader" option as a last resort. No problem. If you feel like disassembling the miboot stage 1 boot-sector, and providing me info on what it does, i would appreciate. It seems i am legally barred from doing it myself if i want to write the reimplementation. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
