Subject: Re: Is there a bootable floppy image ?
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 22:39:34 MST
You're absolutely right Bo (I didn't notice that he's running on a
Powermac 4400). I too have to use BootX on my 8500's existing Mac
partition to get to the Yeller Dog partition.
Except I have issues during the formating process. I'll be interested in
hearing what this 4400 user encounters when that happens.
-- John
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bo Brinkman wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:27:27 -0500
> From: Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Is there a bootable floppy image ?
>
> YDL 2.1 will not boot on old-world machines...while it *is* possible to
> make bootable CDs on these machines, there are technical reasons YDL did
> not bother.
>
> Yaboot would not work on a 4400 anyway, so you should use BootX, and you
> will need a MacOS install. If you do not own MacOS, you can download 7.5
> for free from Apple, though I'm not sure how you will get it onto disks
> to install it...
>
> As for installing using the BootX_Installer, and using the BootX
> boot-loader, see YDLs install guide.
>
> More info about the 4400 (though this is a bit dated now, so take with a
> grain of salt) can be found at
> http://cable.linuxppc.org:8080/hardware/tanzania/
>
> Bo
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