missing ofboot.b?

[Mark Hepburn <mark_h@postoffice.utas.edu.au>]

A very big thankyou to the creator(s) of the debian-imac sourceforge archive;
I've now managed to boot my ibook2 and install the base system, etc.  (couple
of things I should note; I had to remove the space from the 'boot hd:x,
yaboot' line to become 'boot hd:x,yaboot', and I also needed to supply the
extra arguments 'install video=ofonly' at the boot prompt in case anyone is
following this)

I have got to the step of running mkofboot
('mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /target/etc/ofboot.b --root /dev/hda11
--partition 11'); the first time this complained that no such ofboot.b file
existed; I have an iMac running potato so I used ae to copy the contents of
its /etc/ofboot.b (skipping the <os-badge-icons> bit!) into
/target/etc/ofboot.b.

The next time I ran the same mkofboot line I got a 
"/target/etc/ofboot.b: Line too long"
message followed by a "create hfs filesystem on /dev/hda9" message, to which I
answered no and it aborted.  The only long line in ofboot.b was the
<compatible> section; I removed an entry from that but with the same result.

Have I missed a step in the installation, or can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance, Mark.

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Mark Hepburn
Engineering/Computer Science, University of Tasmania
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