Well, not really. I have a machine with only 7.5.2 on it, and was able to get stuffit and bootx on there. You just have to use the right version of stuffit. They have many on their ftp site. The fight is not won, however, until you can get it onto the mockos partition, unless you're downloading it from macos. But I was downloading it using Linux and there's a rub. So I used netatalk to handle it. It has a handy `unbin' program which will unpack .bin files. But now that I have more experience, I would install the netatalk package, unbin the stuffit.bin file, and then use hfscopy to copy the result to the hfs partition, and see if that would work. Especially since it sounds like you don't already have ethernet? Or maybe you do and you just need to add a second to make the firewall thing work.
I have to admit that getting that mac and my x86 laptop netatalking (tm) wasn't that hard. A real tip o' the hat to the netatalk maintainers. The worst part was having to reboot the mac 15 times. OK, I exaggerate. It was only ten times. If you want to go the tar way: http://www.netfall.com/powerpc/BootX-1.2.2-bin.tar.gz a Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > D'oh! Jumped elsewhere mid-sentence... > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Uh oh... I wasn't able to get it to unpack in MockOS either (on a Motorola > > StarMax- pmac 4400 clone with 7.6, the newer StuffIt don't run on <8.1), > > had to > > unpack the tarball in Linux (link somewhere in the "Sand use hfscopy to get > > it > > there in a form where it would run. > > (link somewhere in the "Stuffit..." thread which started 2/22) and use ... > > Point is: to use BootX, you either need either MockOS 8.1 or Linux just to > unpack > it! Oh well.
