On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > 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).
Umm... ack? If I have time I will see about getting nvsetenv on there. Otherwise, here is a MUCH easier way. I'm pretty sure that nvsetenv is in base2_2.tgz. After you run "install the base system", go to tty2, hit enter to activate it, and type chroot /target. Then you can use nvsetenv. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
