On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:52:01AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> This is my last MacOS disk. It has no Linux on it. I suspect that if I > run the Make Hard Disk Bootable menu item that will be the end of MacOS. No, writing the boot block does not kill MacOS. You just have to type bye from OF to get back to MacOS, because all these Macs were ROM-based. (Of course, if there is no MacOS on the disk, it will have nothing to boot into -- but anyway writing the boot block is harmless in itself.) > I think I'll initialise this disk and see what happens. Hope it works better. > NetBSD is supposed to boot, but I have the CD and can't boot it. Neither > does it appear to try to boot off the LAN when I hold done "n" as > described at > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.macppc.html That is only for NewWorlds AFAIK. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
