You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions.
http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/ Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 5555 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0409 577 664 http://www.eftelradiowan.com/ Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. > From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0900 > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:32 +0800 > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:03:07AM -0500, C. Setlow wrote: >> Hello. >> I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, >> TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be >> appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it >> fails after loading the kernel image. > > i am not sure that these machines will netboot, its a miricle oldworld > OF boots at all. > > what exactly is happening when you kernel image fails? error messages > are useful. > > my netboot mini-howto might be helpful, buts its biased towards > newworlds. i don't know much about netbooting on oldworlds, its not > officially supported by apple and all i have heard is that some of the > more recent oldworld OF implementations have some half assed netboot > abilities. > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc > or > http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
