On 11-Oct-2001 Michael Schmitz wrote: >> But there is no MacOs in this Mac anymore, and as far as I remember the >> floppy >> is not ejected (and that would not have been a big problem anyway). > > I must have missed that bit of information in your earlier posts. Your > posts did sound like you could not make the disk bootable for some > non-technical reason, and would need to boot Linux when MacOS isn't > running. > >> > If _I_ may hazard a guess: it's probably been considered too hard and not >> > useful enough to try by others. You need the feature, you're in the best >> > position to implement it. >> >> I don't thinks I need to do anything complicated or unusual. I just want to >> make the same boot disk than what Debian ships (the famous >> /woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.13-2001-08-25/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy- >> hfs > > That's woody... another piece of information I must have overlooked. > >> .img bootdisk) but with a custom kernel. >> >> So do you know what steps were used to make this boot floppy? > > Simple - get the boot-floppies CVS source, install whatever the relevant > documentation says you should have (lotsa packages, plus a partial archive > mirror), run make. Poof, magic happens, and out falls the floppy image > (among all the other stuff in disks-powerpc/current/). > If you want another kernel on the floppy, build a kernel package and stick > that into the archive mirror. > > That's the theory. Others actually doing this kind of work might be able > to point out some gotchas. You can perhaps figure out how to build just > the floppy image by looking at the makefile but I'd first try to build the > default image, then build a customized version. > > I'm not telling you anything new here - others have suggested you try the > boot-floppies source. Just do it. > > Michael
aaah thanks, at least some really usefull starting point (not the easy way though). I have had great difficulties to make myself be understood about this problem... (and I have launched this thread a looong time ago). I thanks you all for your time and your help. I will try that... I think your will hear about me again soon :) cu
