[OT] - Downloadable Mac OS

[Rick Thomas]

Brian,

Can you post the URL for the version of miboot that takes an external 
config file?

To make a bootable CD that will work on OldWorld machines, one needs to 
create a partitioned CD:  The first partition is (of course -- as for 
all Mac partitioned media) the partition map; the second and third 
partitions are drivers for SCSI and IDE CD-ROM drives.  After that, you 
can put an HFS format partition with an appropriately blessed miboot in 
it, and follow that up with one or more ext2 partitions from your 
favorite Linux install.

The reason no PowerPC Linux distro provides such a CD is that the 
drivers are Apple proprietary code.  The commercial houses that sell 
bootable CDs all (presumably) pay Apple for a license.

I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that if I owned a legally licensed 
copy of a MacOS9 install CD, I could -- for my own private use within 
the privacy of my own home -- legally copy the relevant driver 
partitions off of it to make an OldWorld bootable Linux CD-ROM.  I 
think it would be a fun experiment, but I haven't tried it.

If anybody has tried it, how did it work?

Are there any lawyers on the list?  Is it legal to post a detailed 
description of the procedure?

Enjoy!

Rick

On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Brian Barr wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:00:19 -0600 (MDT)
> Norberto Quintanar  wrote:
>
>> It's looking like one can not get rid of the mac os completely on an 
>> oldworld mac.
>
> Have you tried miBoot?  I have a PowerTower running YDL that only has 
> miboot on the first partition.  Seems like if it was properly 
> configured on a CD, it should be bootable on an Old World machine.
>
> Didn't LinuxPPC used to use this method?  It's been brought up on the 
> list before, that's where I got the idea.  Someone even posted a link 
> to the version that works with an external configuration file (others 
> need to have ResEdit change strings in a resource which is not my  cup 
> of tea...)>
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Brian Barr