On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > And how to do this with an prep system or apus or mbx?
PReP can boot off some sort of a cd I think. > The easiest way is always to use boot-floppies or for the future also from > cdrom. But powermac can only read hfs, chrp can read msdos, hfs or ntfs ... > > quik on prep isn't possible, what about to use silo/milo on this system? PReP has it's own booter-type thing, PPCBug, iirc. > Is bootx gpl free? What about to use open-firmware directly ... BootX is GPL'ed. Problem with OF is some machines have shitty video drivers (tho that's not to much of a prob) and some G3s (1st gen?) have broken OF which need patches from Apple's Multibooter to work right, or you're stuck to a floppy. > If i know it correct: bootx needs macos !? Yeap. --- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/
