Hi, On Thursday 13 July 2006 04:20, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I beg to differ. The manual for sarge didn't mention miboot floppies > at all (because they're non-free and apparently can't even be in > non-free). CD booting doesn't work on old world (requires non-free > apple boot code), and netboot only works with built-in ethernet cards > (and not on all systems with them). That leaves BootX, which was also > non-free, but didn't require debian directly use it (unlike the miBoot > floppies). By the logic not to mention non-free stuff, BootX shouldn't be mentioned in the manual as well :-P And that netboot only works with built-in ethernet cards is not a reason to drop oldworld, afaik most (but at least many) oldworld machines have build-in ethernet cards ("just" not your machine), but I'm too lazy to check apple-history.com to verify if it's "most" or "many" :) Also, as repeatedly written here, there _is_ ongoing work to free miboot _and_ to make quik capable of booting from floppy. (And, but I dont see this as realistic as fixing miboot and/or quik, netbsd supports CD booting on some oldworld models - so there are free implementations for that.) regards, Holger
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