Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help
You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open firmware using
a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions.
http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/
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> From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0900
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help
> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:32 +0800
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:03:07AM -0500, C. Setlow wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP,
>> TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be
>> appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it
>> fails after loading the kernel image.
>
> i am not sure that these machines will netboot, its a miricle oldworld
> OF boots at all.
>
> what exactly is happening when you kernel image fails? error messages
> are useful.
>
> my netboot mini-howto might be helpful, buts its biased towards
> newworlds. i don't know much about netbooting on oldworlds, its not
> officially supported by apple and all i have heard is that some of the
> more recent oldworld OF implementations have some half assed netboot
> abilities.
>
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc
> or
> http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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