RE: new installer
Ok I think I see the overall picture now. Basically 2.2 and the old bf24 are
the only kernels small enough to fit on a floppy. Booting from cds is not
an option because that requires a proprietary bootloader. Are the following
situations possible. Boot from floppy -> Quik -> use quik to start up
Cdrom, or boot from floppy -> yaboot2 -> use yaboot2 to kickstart cd.
Dan Weber
-----Original Message-----
From: simon raven [mailto:simon@nuit.ca]
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 7:28 PM
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: new installer
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:42:22PM -0400, dan wrote:
> > No simon is right on this one. Thie issue is that devfs has no
> > support for old world macs. We all know devfs is crap too. My
> > solution would be to remove devfs from the entire installer and try
> > another system maybe using MAKEDEV.
>
> Out of curiosity, what is so special about OldWorld Macs that they
> don't work with devfs?
it isn,t that oldworld deson't go with devfs, it's that 2.2.x kernels
don't. RTFMs please.
eric
> --
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
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