Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:43:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can use dd with (the data fork of) a MacOS DiskCopy image, as long > as it was created as a read/write image (not sure if read-only works; > read-only compressed definitely doesn't). I've checked. You can also > use plain bi

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-03-02 Thread james
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:15:23PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I'm not sure you can use dd with a MacOS DiskCopy image, I think they > contain a header. Also, miBoot need to be configured via ResEdit on > MacOS. This will change, but the current version of miBoot was mostly > made for bo

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-26 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Ben maintains this on his page at http://ppclinux.apple.com > that's great, but I don't have a mac so I can't get it in the .sit > format it's available in there. > any way i can get that on openbsd or nt? There is a stuffit expander for NT you could get from aladdinsys

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >well i think its a macos diskcopy image but iirc they are the same >format as dd images (ie bit for bit copies) but they might have a >resource fork, so you would need to make sure its not in macbinary >format or such. I'm not sure y

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 04:07:04AM -0500, J-ble wrote: > > Ben maintains this on his page at http://ppclinux.apple.com > > that's great, but I don't have a mac so I can't get it in the .sit format > it's available in there. > > any way i can get that on openbsd or nt? hum yeah .sit is as propri

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-24 Thread J-ble
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:23:19AM -0500, J-ble wrote: > > Thanks very much. > > > > Where can I get the miboot image? > > well i think its a macos diskcopy image but iirc they are the same > format as dd images (ie bit for bit copies) but they might ha

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:29:45PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > Ben maintains this on his page at http://ppclinux.apple.com sorry this is supposed to be http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ -- Ethan Benson

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:23:19AM -0500, J-ble wrote: > Thanks very much. > > Where can I get the miboot image? well i think its a macos diskcopy image but iirc they are the same format as dd images (ie bit for bit copies) but they might have a resource fork, so you would need to make sure its n