oldworld boot made easy

yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Aug 15 14:11:01 2003


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Guy McArthur wrote:
> The debian folks have an HFS boot floppy used as the first step in their 
> install. However, they also provide a script so you can change the 
> target to the hard drive (e.g. root=/dev/sda5).
> 
> It works great! No MacOS bootstrap partition (bootX) or open firmware 
> hacks (quik) are needed.

but you do need a floppy drive, don't you?

mike