Re: Unidentified subject!
Thanks very much.
Where can I get the miboot image?
i don't do nfs currently, so I'll still need to install via ftp. Will
this be possible?
thanks again,
jble
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:59:25AM -0500, J-ble wrote:
> > I need to install debian/ppc on a powermac 8500/200 with 256MB and a blank
> > 2G disk... but i have no macos install media.
> >
> > I have openbsd and winnt machines here: obsd-sparc(floppy),
> > obsd-i386(floppy), winnt-i386(floppy, cd burner).
> >
> > Can i make a floppy or cd with any of those that i can then use to boot
> > the mac and do an ftp install?
>
> hmm i would say dd a miboot floppy on the BSD boxen and see if the mac
> will boot that, im not sure if floppy based compressed ramdisks work
> on ppc kernels or not, if they do then it should bootstrap very much
> like an intel box, boot the miboot floppy should load the kernel which
> should ask for a ramdisk, once it loads that you can install the base
> system over NFS (assuming linux NFS likes BSD nfs...)
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
>
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