Re: dzinstall 1.0.40
Martin Keegan <mk270@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Matt Porter wrote:
> > Who are the pmac developers out there? I'm wondering if I need to set up
> > the Starmax I have available at work and do the work (even though I've
> > hardly even touched a Mac before). I feel like nobody with Mac know-how
> > is interested in boot-floppies development.
>
> Probably because it's a waste of time with the current model. For a start,
> you have to find a machine whose firmware can see the floppy drive (this
> rules out G3s, and maybe iMacs) and can read it reliably (this rules out
> most models before 1997). On top of this you have the problems of
> modifying the firmware to read some named kernel image off a floppy (which
> means having MacOS (not an option for some) or having a Mac printer cable
> to use the serial port, etc, etc - not something a newbie is going to be
> about to do to her beloved Mac.
I think when Matt mentioned boot-floppies developement, he meant,
'boot-floppies' the package -- which is a misnomer, since it includes
CD booting, OS installers, TFTP, etc.
If there are some subarches such as pmac which cannot have literal
boot floppies, then so be it. Still, boot-floppies should be adopted
to build OS installers (i.e., from MacOS), TFTP images, CD-ROM
bootable images, etc.
So I think I'd rather have you direct your effort to those other
alternatives...
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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