Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, erik@debill.org wrote:
> > You have to point the kernel/modules install to
> > http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer instead of
> > http.us.debian.org. After that the standard http.us.debian.org worked
> > for installing base system and other packages.
>
> Yeah, you won't need to do this after the next release of the installer,
> which should hopefully come soon.
You're going to uncomment the Makefile for the next release?
> > So far the only complaints were the lack of a chance to tell yaboot to
> > also boot Mac OS X,
>
> This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement
> it? We could traverse the partition table and look for file systems
> that are Apple_HFS or whatever, but how can we tell whether they're
> MacOS or MacOS X? And how can we tell which ones are bootable? (I don't
> have MacOS, so I can't try this.)
It's a nice idea, but I feel feature creep coming on.
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