On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:35:28AM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote: > > potato r1 should however have a new ybin which will autogenerate > > ofboot.b. you won't have to edit this script anymore (even for > > multiboots) > > That will help a lot. Are there plans to make the installer deal with > yaboot.conf? It looks like its not too hard to have the installer generate > a yaboot.conf with information from the user about the locations of the > bootstrap, root and possibly macos partitions. that will be much more feasible given two new items: 1) a working nvsetenv for newworld powerpc 2) ofpath, which is based on a SuSE utility which i largely rewrote to work in the confines of the boot floppies, and posix. (and fixed a bug or two on the way) it allows us to find the OF device path from a unix /dev/ node. ybin also uses this automatically. i have written patches for the documentation already, and just need to put out ybin 0.20 which has a couple more fixes and improvments, then Dan can package it all. as far as the installer and a newworld friendly `Make bootable from hard disk' step. i think the best way to get that is one or both of the following: 1) write code 2) send lots of beer to dan@debian.org ;-) even if the Make bootable step is not fixed the mkofboot step will be much less obnoxious. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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