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Re: what the hell is ``bondi blue?''



On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:34:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:56:16PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:40:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > i might be persuaded to write some of the yaboot/bootstrap stuff but
> > > it woudl be good to know exactly what your planning for dbootstrap on
> > > those? are you going to make any attempts to activate the `make disk
> > > bootable' on newworlds?  or is it up to the user?  
> > 
> > Not for potato.
> 
> reasonable.  we should be sure to document that `make disk bootable'
> won't work on newworld of course.  (does it even work for oldworld?) 

Maybe, maybe not :P

> > Basically, I put the tools on there, people can use them.  I'm
> > rewriting most of the whole process for woody.  Hopefully, we'll have
> > util-linux support Mac partition tables directly.
> 
> its not too painful to do manually, we just need to do something to
> make sure that certain steps are done (like oh partitioning the
> *right* way, which is hard to fix later...)  so long as the partition
> is there mkofboot makes the actual bootstrap configuration a one line
> command.  
> 
> did you get a ofboot.b script onto the boot floppies?  or will that be
> 2.2.13? 

Yep.

> by the time woody is to this point we should have a sane way to
> translate /dev/ nodes into gross OF paths that will improve things
> ALOT.  (along with a way to write to the nvram)

Besides, we'll be on devfs, probably.  Ben is working on a way to make
OF paths user accessible, also.

Dan

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|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
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