Re: Bug#201857: does not build on powerpc
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:19:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Kraai
>
> | On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:35:30AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> | > is it possible to use floppies formatted for 1.6 M on the powerpc?
> | > If so, we will use the 'full' busybox-cvs-udeb; if not it might be
> | > very hard to build powerpc floppies.
> |
> | I don't know, my iBook2 doesn't have a floppy drive. I don't know
> | if you can even boot a Mac from a floppy.
>
> you can, it's the only way to boot oldworlds, iirc, at least.
Right, but I doubt if 1.6M would work. Certainly the floppy drives
were never used that way under MacOS, and MacOS users would be unable
to burn floppy images. The utilities don't let you specify a size,
just choose between 800k, 1.4M, or PC 1.4M formats.
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