On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Here are the instructions to boot this machine: > <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2>. > > Unfortunately, I have no legacy MacOS. My sole MacOSX runs only on > a laptop with no floppy drive. > > I request a little from someone who has a MacOS version above 8.0 > running on a floppy drive machine to create a SystemDisk needed to > flash my OpenFirmware. > > Instructions to do so are here: > <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/>. > > To wit, the MacOS 8.1 boot floppy did not work for me. :( > > If someone would be so kind to create a floppy with these tools on > MacOS, dd it on a file on a Unix System, and then upload it somewhere, > it would be nice. :)
Well, in case someone has no MacOS available, it is possible to create the dd'able floppy image with MacOSX. By using graphical Disk Image utility, you will get a blockdev /dev/disk2 and a chardev /dev/rdisk2. And then, do: hdiutil convert /dev/rdisk2 -format UDRW -o "Disk Tools PPC" or: dd if=/dev/rdisk2 of="Disk Tools PPC.dmg" For those who have no MacOSX at all, here it is: <http://ag.roxor.be/Disk%20Tools%20PPC.dmg>. Nobody seems to care about that machine which is -- NetBSD talking -- "one of the hardest to boot", I hope someday this post might help someone in the same situation like me who needed his OF patched, but could not, because he had no legacy MacOS. Cheers. -- ((__,-"""-,__)) .---. `--)~ ~(--` / \ .-'( )`-. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@./ Aurélien GÉRÔME `~~`@) (@`~~` /`\_/`\ | | // _ \\ Free Software Developer | | | \ )|_ Unix Sys & Net Admin (8___8) /`\_`> <_/ \ `---` \__/'---'\__/ BOFH excuse #328: Fiber optics caused gas main leak
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