On May 29, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:
The /tools directory on the PPC Netinst disks contains only Windows/ PC tools. A copy of BootX is critical for OldWorld installs.I may sound stupid because I'm ignorant of PPC things, but is it free software ? Anyway, this is more pertaining to the "cdrom" pseudo-package, I guess.
No, it's not stupid :)Yes, it is free software AFAIK. It is available at http:// penguinppc.org/~benh Any questions regarding licensing (there is no statement regarding licensing on his page) should be directed to Ben.
I did run across another issue after I got the installer running. Quik doesn't always work as a boot loader for Old World Macs (I still don't have it working on my Beige G3). Because of this I have to continue using BootX to boot my linux system. While this is, in itself, acceptable, the fact that I had no tools within the installer to access HFS or HFS+ partitions, I had some interesting issues trying to get my kernel onto the HFS boot partition. I solved this by chrooting into the new install to use hfstools. This could have been avoided by including the kernel module for the hfs filesystem in one of the packages loaded by the installer.
Thank you. Anton