On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:34:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:56:16PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:40:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Not for potato. > > reasonable. we should be sure to document that `make disk bootable' > won't work on newworld of course. (does it even work for oldworld?)
Maybe, maybe not :P > > Basically, I put the tools on there, people can use them. I'm > > rewriting most of the whole process for woody. Hopefully, we'll have > > util-linux support Mac partition tables directly. > > its not too painful to do manually, we just need to do something to > make sure that certain steps are done (like oh partitioning the > *right* way, which is hard to fix later...) so long as the partition > is there mkofboot makes the actual bootstrap configuration a one line > command. > > did you get a ofboot.b script onto the boot floppies? or will that be > 2.2.13? Yep. > by the time woody is to this point we should have a sane way to > translate /dev/ nodes into gross OF paths that will improve things > ALOT. (along with a way to write to the nvram) Besides, we'll be on devfs, probably. Ben is working on a way to make OF paths user accessible, also. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
