Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up
Quoting Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>:
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> if you can see yaboot when booting OF manually that tells me that the
> terminal is indeed being disabled by mac-boot. could you try changing
> your boot-command to `boot' as well?
>
> nvsetenv boot-command boot
>
> but you MUST have the new powerpc-utils package from proposed-updates
> installed for this.
Right now, I'm using "boot" to boot my computer. From the install doc I sent:
"setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot"
Then I type boot, or reboot the 'puter, and off you go. Of course if ybin does
some nasty things behind my back...
> /me checks source, hmm yes novideo appears to be a config file option
> that is converted to video=ofonly, so try:
>
> Linux video=ofonly
Doh! This would have been useful last week... Now, I know it...
> > Yeah, I know that Netscape is crap, but I have to load it up to move
> all my
> > e-mails to some more conventional mbox style files.
> > And on Linux/PPC, AFAIK it at least got to the point where you could
> show a
> > page... So, is *that* solved ? If I can get a Microsoft-esque kind of
> stability,
> > I'd sign.
>
> as far as i know it runs, and works, it just crashes all the time like
> every other version of netscape in existence. if you use it long term
> setting resource limits are highly reccommended.
The name caching daemon is the most ugly part. Thanks for the tip.
> BTW if you want a backup bootstrap and have multple machines around
> (as you appear to having an iBook and iMac) you may want to look at
> setting up netboot, its a nice fallback, and is not very hard. see my
> page for the netboot mini-howto.
Bonus question: would this work with airport :P
BTW, with new machines it is possible to boot off some USB-devices, this has
been asked a couple of days ago. The OF path, by default is zip:
/Hadess
http://hadess.net
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