You can boot the 1st ISO from Open Firmware:

boot cd:2,\\:tbxi

or 

boot cd:2,\\yaboot

The technique used in testboot4 will be applied in the next Beta.

I know it seems a hassle to insist on that bootstrap, but if it's not
there, the whole thing falls apart - you'll have a nicely installed system
and no way to boot it.  In the updates, I've replaced that halt with a
warning, but if the user proceeds and does not heed the warning and does
not create the bootstrap themselves, again you'll be stuck.  (this applies
to "NewWorld" machines - "OldWorld" machines bypass the bootstrap setup -
you'll need to setup BootX on the MacOS side.

All the installer really wants to see is some Apple_Free space at the end
of the drive to create the bootstrap.

Stew Benedict

-- 
MandrakeSoft    OH/TN, USA      http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote:

> I went and grabbed the ISOs for Mandrake PPC and found that on my Summer 
> 2000 iMac DV (slot loading), the boot didn't work.  I grabbed the 
> testboot4.iso and the boot worked there - but I wasn't able to complete 
> the install because DiskDrake seemed to be having a conniption fit that 
> I didn't have a 1MB bootstrap partition (at least that's what the 
> message says).  I have YDL 1.2 installed currently, alongside MacOS9.1 - 


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