Re: How do I use those PowerMac images-1.44?
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:33:55PM -0400, John R. MacPhail wrote:
> As I mentioned above, you should hope to avoid all this floppy stuff.
> But it does need clearer explanation. Here are two questions I still
> have:
>
> 1. I was able to boot with floppies made from boot-floppy-hfs.img
> and root.bin, but never made any sense out of rescue.bin -- does it
> work for anybody? What is it supposed to do?
It's downloaded during installation to install a kernel from. It's not
bootable.
>
> 2. Once we are in ResEdit, modifying the arguments being sent to
> the Linux kernel on boot-floppy-hfs.img, what is the procedure for
> specifying that root.bin can be found on some hard disk partition
> instead of in the floppy drive?
No can do.
I'm going to try to get more useful video modes onto the 2.2r1
installer, if I have time.
Dan
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