On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:25:32PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > EB> the debian cds should boot Newworld powermacs and PReP > EB> (maybe) it would be nice to be able to boot oldworld macs > EB> too but that would require non-free Apple CD drivers or a > EB> custom written driver that acts as a boot loader > EB> [...]
Reread the above paragraph :) > I'm sure we've had some discussion about this issue before, but > just to bring it up again, what are the LinuxPPC people using on > their CD-ROMs? My housemat and I downloaded disk images for > LinuxPPC 2000 and burnt CD-ROMs from them, and they booted my > ``old world'' PowerComputing clone just fine. (We actually The non-free Apple drivers. You can distribute disks made with them, but you need a licence to make software which can create such disks, I think. Toast, for instance - but not mkhybrid/cdrecord. > If LinuxPPC can boot both ``old world'' and ``new world'' > PowerMacs with the same CD-ROMs, why can't Debian? I thought I > remembered seeing a message from someone at LinuxPPC offering to > help with getting the bootable CD-ROMs set up, as well, although > I'm damned if I can find it now (gotta love computers, right?). You're probably thinking of Brad's offer last year - he was quite helpful. > Let me know if I'm totally off-base here. While it would be nice > to have a single set of disks for all PowerPC systems, I think we > all agree that's not entirely possible, and maybe not even > entirely desirable. It seems like the major downside to having > multiple architecture-specific CD-ROMs would affect retailers more > than end-users, and I suspect that most Debian users download > images and burn their own CD-ROMs anyway. I doubt that assumption. Also - the subarches we do not currently boot, we have no idea HOW to boot. There's talk of a free OldWorld booter, but no one has time right now. > * ``Installable'' is their term; I don't know whether that means > that LinuxPPC 2000 doesn't work on other architectures or whether > they just mean you can't boot from their CD-ROMs on other > architectures. Doesn't boot. > ** Aside: LinuxPPC's Mac page, > <http://www.linuxppc.com/about/hardware/apple/>, claims that G4s > should be able to boot with the newest version of BootX available > from Ben's site, <http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/>. I thought > that was kind of interesting given the discussions here about > BootX vs. yaboot. I don't see anything on Ben's page that > confirms or denies G4 bootability with BootX. I don't think that is true... Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
