Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

[Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de (Hartmut Koptein)]

> >Once you can get to OF, it'd be:
> >'boot fd:linux load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram' (I think).
> >
> >To boot with bootx, copy root.bin into the same folder as the bootx 
> >app itself and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz, you also need the linux 
> >kernel image, which should be placed in the 'Linux Kernels' folder; 
> >then launch the bootx app and make sure to check the 'Use ramdisk' 
> >checkbox.
> 
> There's a feature in BootX specially made for distribution CDs: You can
> have the kernel, ramdisk and settings files just next to the BootX
> application. This way, you can provide a double-clicable application
> which launches with the correct default settings for the installer
> (mostly "use ramdisk" and the ramdisk_size argument).
> 
> If you want to try the new BootX 1.2b1, there is also support for coff
> images with embedded ramdisk. Those are also supported by miBoot so you
> can make real boot floppies for pre-newworld machines. Once I have
> finished with the iBook support, I'll try to fix quik so we can make
> bootable CDs that boot both newworld and pre-newworld machines.

Have you an example file for this? 


 Thanks,


    Hartmut