Floppy-less booting
> you have to manually setup a bootloader and load it via the
> OpenFirmware command line. if you don't like that buy a CD.
>
I like it!
>
> http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/netboot.shtml
>
> it is quite easy to netboot the debian installation. that is how i
> usually do boot floppy testing on my blue g3 rather then spending time
> burning a CD.
>
I'm checking with my ISP to see if they'll support my netbooting. Thanks for
the pointer! I'll be trying that next.
>> It'd be great, someday, for Mac users, to be able to double
>> click an installer file to get Debian installed.
> you need to get past this complex that Debian is MacOS, or that its a
> MacOS program. its not. don't expect it to be like MacOS either, its
> not and won't be.
Really, I do understand that. But before I have Debian, all I have is MacOS.
All other Mac users are in the same boat. The discussion is about getting
from here to there, and Debian would be much more accessible to Mac users if
they could use a Mac installer to get there.
>> A/UX Free (to be eventually used for Apple_Bootstrap): 1M
>
> 800K is more then sufficient.
Drive Setup is a very weak program, that AFAIK allows only integral numbers
of M to be typed in.
>> A/UX Root: 128M
>> A/UX Swap: 128M
>> A/UX User: 1000M
>
> where is /home ?
Missing! From the install documentation, I thought I could put /home, /var,
and the rest on the /user partition. Do I need another partition?
> here is the deal:
Cool!
> put yaboot and the file `linux' (from the boot-floppies) along with
> root.bin onto the *root* (not desktop, not system folder, not any
> other subdirectory) of any of those HFS partitions.
HFS+ is OK, right? I downloaded a brand spanking shiny new linux and
root.bin from the ftp.us.debian.org. There isn't any yaboot file in the
stable boot-floppies directory, so I downloaded 1.1.1 from your web page at
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/yaboot-1.1.1.tar.gz
I decompressed it with MacGZip and Stuffit Expander before putting it
alongside the other two.
> create the following yaboot.conf file:
>
> image=linux
> label=install
> initrd=root.bin
> initrd-size=8192
I used BBEdit to create a Unix style file with LFs instead of CRs. This
would probably be another little challenge for Mac users.
> boot hd:X,yaboot
> where X is the partition number of the partition you put the yaboot
> file. if you don't know start at 9 and work your way up until it
> works.
>
I'm sure glad you mentioned working up from 9! No clue from the Drive Setup
application about the real partition number.
> after that you should get a yaboot `Boot:' prompt enter `install' and
> press return. this will boot into the debian installer.
>
After entering install, it almost worked. I got;
Loading kernel
... kernel loaded
Loading ramdisk
... ramdisk loaded at 0x1800000, size: 1474560 bytes
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=0300 at %SAR0: 01608158
%SAR1: 00003030
Then I got the OF prompt again. I entered mac-boot, and got just an
alternating folder symbol and question mark. Then I used the
Control-Cmd-start key combination and it booted back into MacOS.
Suggestions? Try the 2.2.19 boot-floppies kernel & root.bin?
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