Re: Booting install disks on G4

[micha@kovoks.nl]

On 27 Jul, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>> BUT... It all stops here. I can recall from my i386 installs that you
>> need to boot from rescue.bin and mount root.bin. But my G4 400 doesn't
>> have a useable floppy-drive.
>> What kind of configuration do I need to boot into the installation
>> process.
> 
> You will need to tell yaboot to use a ramdisk, that's all.  Add
> "initrd=path/to/ramdisk.image.gz" and initrd-size=8192 to the
> yaboot.conf or at the command line.

Thanks for the help. I've got it working right now. I'll post a little
howto about my install.