On Fri, 2007 Aug 31 00:46:11 -0400, Rod Ross wrote: > > > > ? Or would you have to use a Mac-compatible partitioner first, and write > > the .iso to the first partition? > > > You my use the whole disk such as /dev/hdb. This would be the debian > etch netinstall iso or business card iso. Doing this only "fakes" a > cdrom device. I do not recommend booting from the same device and using > a separate partition on that same device as the partition containing the > debian netinstall or business card iso as the ramdisk boot installer. It > might work since ybin or yaboot or quik are not installed. Not sure of > command sequence for miboot boot loader but I would guess it would have > problems . I have tried this "fake" cdrom on a Alpha with etch and it > works. If you have a netinstall that you can boot than you are set you > can just dd that to the boot disk drive and install to the other one. > But if the image will not boot you might have problems. Use "dd > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb" to zero data on the disc if you experience > problems with the disc you wrote to.
I only have one disk, so it would be /dev/hda, and I would have to install to the same disk that the machine boots from. Should this work? As I understand, once everything is loaded, the system runs in RAM---so the original HFS partition (with the content of the .iso) can be blown away without a problem. > http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/ > <http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/#bootx> > Great read for open firmware macs > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html > <http://www.alaska.net/%7Eerbenson/doc/netboot.html> Ah, but my machine is an Old World Mac. No OF at all.... > TFTP is normally implemented in Open firmware. Several archs, ports or > whatever you want to call different computers allow TFTP from the BIOS. > Such as my SGI Indy and my Alpha PWS have TFTP clients built into the > ROM . When you get into closed firmware such as on the your PB1400 or my > 3 nubus (really it is PDS) powermacs TFTP would need to be started after > a kernel has already loaded thus defeating the purpose. TFTP would be used to pull down an initrd/RAM-rootfs, after booting the kernel from a floppy. (So it's the kernel that does the TFTP request, not a machine ROM.) This is because the kernel can use the network device, but not the floppy drive (so a root floppy is impossible). > Perhaps what you are really looking for is a ram disk install image > with network capabilities built in, basically a netinstall you can > boot. Booting being the plus. Well, that would require driving the network device before the kernel is loaded. On PCs, this can be handled by the BIOS and a boot ROM on the network interface. Here, however, we have neither :( --Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
