Subject: ybin 0.18 online
From: Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 04:44:11 MDT
I have released ybin 0.18, it can be downloaded from
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/ or from
http://linuxppc.org/usr/ybin/ (depending on your local DNS server)
* Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies.
* ybin will automatically use the ofpath utility to find the
OpenFirmware path to the bootstrap partition when `ofboot=' is not
defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. you can still use that variable if you
wish, or if ofpath for some reason does not work on your system.
unlike 0.17 you can now set macos= and macosx= to the unix device
node, ie macos=/dev/hda12 and macosx=/dev/hda13. when you do this
ybin will use ofpath to convert the unix device path to the
OpenFirmware device path. You can still use OpenFirmware device paths
for these options if you wish, or if ofpath does not work on your
system. ybin is smart enough to only attempt a conversion when the
unix node is specified.
enjoy.
-- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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