Re: BootX compatable boot disk?
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:41:09PM -0500, Bruce Ide wrote:
> > Well, the only bright light for an installer right now is Joel's new
> > machine - which doesn't want to boot. I am afraid that I don't have
> > the resources or time to work on an installer right now, and the
> > current one is messy. I may try to rebuild the base tarball, though.
> >
> > Installing without the installer is ... messy.
> >
>
> I'm somewhat curious as to how you can have all those packages in potato
> and no boot/install disks. Have you guys really done that many on the 4 or
> 5 machines you have up? I'm assuming the stuff in Potato will work on my
> Mac G3 (It's symlinked to sid/*-powerpc) Please let me know if this is not
> the case.
It is the case. Most of them didn't require as much human attention as
CPU attention. Boot disks are the other way around.
> I tried mounting the RAMDISK on my intel system and tweaking it so that it
> would boot to a command prompt where I could partition and format the
> drives, mount them up, and detar the base tar. I assume dselect/dpkg/apt
> works reasonably well and so I should be home free at that point. However,
> when I try to boot my modified RAMDISK, it gripes that no init was found.
> I thougt init was supposed to live in /sbin, so I'm not sure what's up
> there. I copied the init from the base tarball in potato.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable line of attack? Once I get the system
> up, I'd be happy to try to build a ramdisk people could boot that has the
> installer on it. *shrug*
It does sound reasonable, and BootX is going to be a supported
boot/installation method - eventually. We need to see about getting
the installer compiled, first.
Dan
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