Hi,
Just wondering the status of the effort to free miBoot.
Regards,
Daniel
--
And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early,
now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or
strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore
GnuP
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:12:49PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> >>Here are a few practical suggestions:
> >>
> >>Has anyone looked at "inside Macintosh" or some of the other early Mac
On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:12:49PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Here are a few practical suggestions:
Has anyone looked at "inside Macintosh" or some of the other early Mac
technical docs? I wonder if this code is, maybe, described there?
The rea
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, at 06:07 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the
vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware.
Personally, I think alternative (b) is
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
> ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the
> vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware.
> Personally, I think alternative (b) is not viable either -- it's
> just too much pain for anyone to put up
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:54:53AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Let me see if I've got this right...
[ Massive snip ]
Yes, that looks accurate to me.
> I don't think that alternative (a) is going to happen. There just
> isn't the critical mass to get such a project off the ground.
You'll not
implementation of miboot and they are off and running. They can
boot from floppies to run the D-I installer -- either via the
network or via CDs, and use the (proposed) free miboot as their
default boot-loader from disk after installation is complete. That
is: after the initial install
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Booting from floppy every time is a pain -- especially since floppies
> tend to go bad (wear out, actually) over time. But it's a possible
> option in the rare case when you haven't got access to any MacOS{89}
> install CD.
>
> But th
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:33, Brad Boyer wrote:
> Would we be able to use the patch drivers if someone convinced
> Apple to give us permission to redistribute them? This is old,
> obsolete stuff, after all. If we could even put them in a special,
> non-free package, it could be usable.
I'll see wh
9 matches
Mail list logo
