Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:10:28AM -0400, Mo Oishi wrote: > Hi, Chris. Does this mean that the olemiss disk won't boot an oldworld > mac at all? Sorry, maybe I missed some context here. I thought the > advantage of the woody disks was the broad range of PPC it could be > gracefully installed on.

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-30 Thread Mo Oishi
Hi, Chris. Does this mean that the olemiss disk won't boot an oldworld mac at all? Sorry, maybe I missed some context here. I thought the advantage of the woody disks was the broad range of PPC it could be gracefully installed on. Mo Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:50:32PM

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:50:32PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > How do I build a powerpc test image with the blessed folder in the root > > > on a Debian i386. > > > > I think that could be the problem. You mean yaboot is within > > /install/powermac, right? Not just inside /install? I think that

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:50:32PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > How do I build a powerpc test image with the blessed folder in the root > > > on a Debian i386. > > > > I think that could be the problem. You mean yaboot is within > > /install/powermac, right? Not just inside /install? I think that

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-21 Thread Otto Wyss
> > How do I build a powerpc test image with the blessed folder in the root > > on a Debian i386. > > I think that could be the problem. You mean yaboot is within > /install/powermac, right? Not just inside /install? I think that would > definitely be a problem. When I wanted to change systems in

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:47:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:12:24PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > > > > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > > > > have a Mac-System- type

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:12:24PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > > > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > > > have a Mac-System- type file. > > > > I talked some weeks ago with Ethan on irc and he t

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-20 Thread Otto Wyss
> > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > > have a Mac-System- type file. > > I talked some weeks ago with Ethan on irc and he told me that > the current (at the time) mkisofs couldn't bless

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:34:36PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On May 19 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > If you mount the CD in MacOS, it should show the folder icon of the > > blessed folder with a little Mac on it, > > By "MacOS" you mean "strictly earlier than X"? Haven't used OSX, so I

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:34:36PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On May 19 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > > have a Mac-System- type file. > > I talked some wee

Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread rw
hi if you really look for bootcd i dont have a solution for you. but i installed today succesfully a debian-ppc3.0 (but without XFree86 at the moment) also on b&w G3 (wallstreet). if you got not a bad networkconnection, just download bootx and linux.bin and ramdisk.gz! then you boot into the

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 19 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > have a Mac-System- type file. I talked some weeks ago with Ethan on irc and he told me that the current (at the

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:15:48AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I've found another boot CD which boots on my b&w G3 while no Debian CD > does: It's "partimage-imac-0.7.0-rc1-bootcd-1.iso.bz2" from Partimage. > > Could anyone who understands making boot CD's analyze what's the > difference between Par

Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Otto Wyss
I've found another boot CD which boots on my b&w G3 while no Debian CD does: It's "partimage-imac-0.7.0-rc1-bootcd-1.iso.bz2" from Partimage. Could anyone who understands making boot CD's analyze what's the difference between Partimage and Debian CD's? Since Partimage provides sources it should be