On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:03:46AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:11:26AM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > > I'd like to thank developers for the ppc install. It was beautiful, > > installing Potato on an iMac last night. (Well, as much as using an iMac > > _can_ be beautiful.) > > Great to hear! > > > My only suggestions: offer the newer BootX, note that a recent unstuffer > > is necessary to untar^H^H^Hstuff them, and offer more info (I'll compile > > mine) on what options BootX should have for initial booting (and it might > > vary, by machine). > > So, write me some docs. > > This is a call for documentation. If you look in the 'boot-floppies' > package you'll see a whole bunch of SGML sources that need PowerPC > information.
i might be persuaded to write some of the yaboot/bootstrap stuff but it woudl be good to know exactly what your planning for dbootstrap on those? are you going to make any attempts to activate the `make disk bootable' on newworlds? or is it up to the user? also i know someone who was looking at adding support to mac-fdisk to change a partitions type, useful for those who followed LinuxPPC's bogus advice and failed to make the bootstrap partition an Apple_Bootstrap and now have MacOS ruining the ybin setup. i may also convince him to add a new command to create bootstrap partitions more directly. (instead of manually with the `C' command) i don't know if he will finish this in time for debian or not (if he really does want to work on mac-fdisk this much) at a minimum i think it would be good for dbootstrap to check for a bootstrap on a newworld and complain loudly if its missing. ;-) > I thought I was using the most recent BootX... isn't 1.2.1 in there? one really should not be using bootx on iMacs anyway, especially if they have MOS9 on them. 1.2.1 i think is the curent stable bootx, ther are some exprimental versions for newworld/OS9 hacks but its clear that bootx on newworld/MOS9 is mostly a lost cause. just use yaboot its better way to go anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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