Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> > 2. How do you do clean installs of debian without BootX? I.e. given > > a kernel and ramdisk (and whatever else), how do I do the initial > > boot on a linux only system. I *have* checked the install docs > > but they didn't cover this the last time I checked. > > The install docs need a lot of updating. Once again, I call for > volunteers - I can edit such a thing, and gladly will, but I don't have > time to create it! Sorry, I didn't intend that as criticism :-( > On an oldworld machine, you can just use the boot-hfs-image.bin (or > something like that) - it's a Mac-bootable floppy image. On a O.k. I've been playing around with this on my powerbook (which thankfully has video under OF), and I think I'm almost there. A few more questions, and I'll be all set. The boot-hfs-image floppy works great. I can type `bye' to boot to ROM, and it boots the system on the floppy just fine. But the installer doesn't have nvsetenv on it, so how do I boot to my installed system (remember that I'm trying to get rid of the macos partition here)? The boot-hfs-image floppy wants the root floppy; is there some way to get it to mount the root file system off the harddrive? I tried to get dbootstrap to make me a boot floppy, but it says that it isn't supported. I also tried to boot a rescue floppy, but OF said it couldn't load it. I know that it *used* to be possible to OF boot a floppy, because when I first installed R4 (linuxppc) this was the only way to reliably boot linux (this was pre-BootX). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :-) cheers, cbb
