On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:51:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:47:23PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current > > > preferred method... > > > > OK, sorry to waste everyone's time, I had not sufficiently RTFM and > > hadn't noticed the bit about not being able to load from a HFS+ disk. > > Given that all of my bootable media are at a friend's house right now, > > looks like I'm going to be booting from the network. ;) > > > > Hmmm. the yaboot-howto says HFS+ is OK, although Ethan wants to deprecate it.
hfs+ is a OpenFirmware filesystem, so yaboot doesn't care and will read it, the problem is the boot-floppies will be unable to read the drivers.tgz and rescue.bin files which are required to install the kernel and drivers. > I noticed your command said hd:,yaboot -- I think you need a partition > number in there like hd:16,yaboot (well that's what I use). hd:,yaboot sometimes works, depends on the machine and how much OF likes you. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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