Quoting Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> > > if you can see yaboot when booting OF manually that tells me that the > terminal is indeed being disabled by mac-boot. could you try changing > your boot-command to `boot' as well? > > nvsetenv boot-command boot > > but you MUST have the new powerpc-utils package from proposed-updates > installed for this.
Right now, I'm using "boot" to boot my computer. From the install doc I sent: "setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot" Then I type boot, or reboot the 'puter, and off you go. Of course if ybin does some nasty things behind my back... > /me checks source, hmm yes novideo appears to be a config file option > that is converted to video=ofonly, so try: > > Linux video=ofonly Doh! This would have been useful last week... Now, I know it... > > Yeah, I know that Netscape is crap, but I have to load it up to move > all my > > e-mails to some more conventional mbox style files. > > And on Linux/PPC, AFAIK it at least got to the point where you could > show a > > page... So, is *that* solved ? If I can get a Microsoft-esque kind of > stability, > > I'd sign. > > as far as i know it runs, and works, it just crashes all the time like > every other version of netscape in existence. if you use it long term > setting resource limits are highly reccommended. The name caching daemon is the most ugly part. Thanks for the tip. > BTW if you want a backup bootstrap and have multple machines around > (as you appear to having an iBook and iMac) you may want to look at > setting up netboot, its a nice fallback, and is not very hard. see my > page for the netboot mini-howto. Bonus question: would this work with airport :P BTW, with new machines it is possible to boot off some USB-devices, this has been asked a couple of days ago. The OF path, by default is zip: /Hadess http://hadess.net
