Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Maybe we could get the boot-sector code declared "OK to use" by Apple?

It would be a "hack the system" kind of thing, but I suppose 
technically they wouldn't have to release the copyright on the 
source code for the boot sector, just the derived sequence of 
binary bits.

Indeed, Apple may have already done so.  I believe they allow free 
download of the MacOS 7.x floppy images.

It's just a thought...

Rick


On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 02:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>   2) a small file, the boot1 macos ressource, a 1K boot-sector to be
>   copied to the floppy boot sector, is taken from the mac os system
>   file. This is non-free, binary only, altough, well, the file in
>   question only contains some ROM calls to initialize HFS, and load the
>   boot2, open the mac os system file, and load boot2, which is provided
>   by the GPL-free part of miboot mentioned above.
>
>
> [ Please CC me or keep the debian-boot CCed, as i am not subscribed to
> debian-legal, but am to debian-boot ]
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
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