Thanks very much. Where can I get the miboot image?
i don't do nfs currently, so I'll still need to install via ftp. Will this be possible? thanks again, jble On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:59:25AM -0500, J-ble wrote: > > I need to install debian/ppc on a powermac 8500/200 with 256MB and a blank > > 2G disk... but i have no macos install media. > > > > I have openbsd and winnt machines here: obsd-sparc(floppy), > > obsd-i386(floppy), winnt-i386(floppy, cd burner). > > > > Can i make a floppy or cd with any of those that i can then use to boot > > the mac and do an ftp install? > > hmm i would say dd a miboot floppy on the BSD boxen and see if the mac > will boot that, im not sure if floppy based compressed ramdisks work > on ppc kernels or not, if they do then it should bootstrap very much > like an intel box, boot the miboot floppy should load the kernel which > should ask for a ramdisk, once it loads that you can install the base > system over NFS (assuming linux NFS likes BSD nfs...) > > -- > Ethan Benson >
