On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:33:31AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The second is "miboot" which works quite well on OldWorld, but it
> only boots from floppy disk.
I'd just like to remind everyone that this is primarily for legal, not
technical reasons. The Linux/ppc CDs that were handed out for free at
the MacWorld conference in San Francisco in 2000 would boot just fine on
an oldworld mac using miboot. However, they required proprietary
software to create. If that proprietary software (it was Toast, I think)
could be replaced completely with free software, Debian could use miboot
for a bootable CD as well. I seem to recall someone getting it to work
on a hard drive one time, but that had some drawbacks as well.
To be clear, the issue with Toast wasn't the creating of the ISO image
or the writing to disc. It was the extra device drivers that Apple used
to insist were present on any device larger than a floppy. I think there
is enough documentation available to do something that would work for
booting from a CD, but it's time I certainly don't have.
Brad Boyer
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