On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > >On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >>Second someone has to write an installer component to install the > >>bootloader for oldworld after a successful installation. > >I don't understand exactly what would be needed here. Which work exactly > >needs to be done? Wouldn't the part that handles newworlds work > >correctly, besides having to call quik instead of yabootconf (or is that > >mkofboot) to set up the bootloader on the disk? > > > >Would there be other code that needs to be written?
> You could try to use yaboot-installer as a starting point or even make > it possible to install yaboot and quick with the same installer > component. Probably it's not too much code, but it needs to be done and > tested. > As I don't know quik, I don't know if it's simply a matter of calling > quik instead of mkofboot. Yes, pretty much. quik installs itself in a boot block instead of needing a separate partition. It uses /etc/quik.conf instead of /etc/yaboot.conf, and you call it with `quik` rather than `mkofboot`. The scripts are still there in boot-floppies; the piece we haven't mentioned is using ofpath to figure out how to set the nvram parameters. What's there works for most people. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
