Macs definitely require a Mac PROM to boot from -- I've got a Mac Plus
I've been eyeballing with exactly those thoughts and so did some
research... Probably best thing to do with it is a terminal, but the
cost justification is a little tough from a power perspective these
days. In fact my next hardware project to research is solar panels :-)
Big iron running clustered microdistributions... mmm, chewy goodness...
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> There's been some discussion of apkg I missed.
>
> apkg does NOT have the capability of running scripts (right now); I've
> been sorely tempted in some cases. What about a <pkg>.sh which would
> take an argument like "start" and "stop" and others?
>
> apkg DOES support, check, and generate *.md5 sums, but these are
> contained WITHIN the LRP package, not outside.
>
> apkg DOES support the generation of a "config.lrp" which is only those
> files named in the *.conf files of a running system. This config.lrp
> is then recognized during the loading process and loaded last, after
> all packages are loaded.
>
> Also, there was a mention of keeping LEAF and variants on the ix86
> platform; what's to say we can't generate a LEAF variant for Sparc or
> something? My favorite would be Mac/68k - or perhaps Mac/PPC - but I
> believe that both of those REQUIRE a MacOS startup first :-( I know
> that OpenBSD required a MacOS partition to actually boot the OpenBSD
> partition.
>
> Hey, how about LEAF on a DAT tape for the HP-9000s? Hmmm..... :-)
> :-) Or a S/390 variant?
>
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