On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:34:53PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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? perhaps, one could also make a bootable zip that is protected from MacOS, assuming partitioned zips are allowed (they should be). in this case create two partitions: 800K Apple_Bootstrap, and a regular ext2. put a kernel on the ext2 and run: mkofboot -b /dev/hdd2 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/currentroot \ --partition 3 --device zip: this could be automated in dbootstrap as a replacement for `make boot floppy' on newworld powermacs if we can reliably determine the zip disk device. and if we can run mac-fdisk non-interactivly ... > Would this ZIP disk be unbootable on OldWorld PowerMac, just as the CD > is? yes its impossible to make a bootable zip disk for oldworld. > I don't suppose there's a way to just take the HFSimage and burn it to > Zip? won't work, on anything but a regular floppy miboot (the hfs image) requires non-free Apple Drivers. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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