Re: Systems with no floppy
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> >
> > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than
> > booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue;
> > forwarding it there.
>
> using the same method as the bootable CDROMs will make a bootable zip
> disk, however it must be done from GNU/Linux and the zip disk must
> never be mounted in MacOS or else MacOS will render it unbootable.
>
> one can always boot the bootloader (yaboot) manually as described many
> times in the debian-powerpc archives.
Maybe Chris Tiller can add this to the Potato documentation?
Would this ZIP disk be unbootable on OldWorld PowerMac, just as the CD
is?
I don't suppose there's a way to just take the HFSimage and burn it to
Zip?
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