Re: G3 Beige Tower install with BootX - help
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:58:42PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I know it's considered impolite on this list to top-post, but Nicholas'
> post is long and so close to perfect that it's worth leaving
> un-disturbed. I have only one thing to add to it:
It is, and the good doctor, ran into every 'gotcha' I have ! <grin>
> Long ago when I was doing this frequently to test the (then very new)
> Sarge installer, by doing an "expert" mode install (setting
> "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low" as Nicholas recommends), you could skip over the
> attempt to install quik by going to a step called (at the time)
> something like "proceed without a boot loader" in the main menu. This
> prevented the quik installer from destroying the boot-partition
> information in NVAM. So when the time came to reboot, you went directly
> into OS-9. There was no need for the "update Apple hard disk drivers"
> step with the OS-9 CD that Nicholas describes.
>
> A lot of things have changed since Sarge, and this bit of lore may no
> longer be applicable. I'll try it out with Lenny myself on a spare
> disk, and report back.
I'm missing something; How does one invoke 'expert' mode in the installer ?
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Regards,
S.D.Allen - Toronto
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