Re: Fw: Potato boot floppies on Mac getting "invalid compressed format"
> Why do you people have to use Penguin 17? All I heard Penguin 18 is the
> newest, best, just right for mac?
So it seemed. But apparently that was with only part of the users testing
it. Penguin-18 was a major rewrite, it is entirely possible that some
subtle special case handling for peculiar Macs got lost.
> As for the prefs, the Penguin Prefs were intentionally deleted from
> macinstall. You have to set the kernel parameters by hand (yes, this should
> be documented, volunteers?). See the archives or ask Michael for an
It is documented in the install guide.
> explanation why they were deleted. IIRC they use allready sane defaults, you
> just have to enter kernelimage and root path, right?
Plus root=/dev/ram (or root=/dev/sdax later).
> If somebody with a mac creates a prefs file which will work out of the box
> from CD, we might include it, but maybe we first need a CD to create such a
> file.
Indeed, and I'm not sure that will even work. The prefs file stores the
full absolute path name to the kernel and ramdisk images which includes
the volume name - and the volume name might change with each release (I
think that was the problem last time with slink).
Without someone familiar with these MacOS tricks working on the m68k CDs
to make sure it really works, there's not much point in having a prefs
file.
Michael
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