Adrian McMenamin wrote:
On Friday 07 May 2004 00:04, Darren wrote:
As far as I know, you wont find a bootable system folder on any except apple co-op distros.
Apple being the copyright holders. A system folder contains a system
>>file, a finder and little else.
Later macs also require a rom file in the system folder which maybe
>>where you got stuck with the disk tools system folder, which works >>fine for me on a mac that doesn't need one.
>>for use in sheepshaver. ;)The rom file can be downloaded from twocows or cnet and is worthless
That's obviously some Austrailian slang I just don't get!
Would that be the whole or some part? Excuse the poor editing to break it down for you, I cant type any slower. ;)
Thanks for the reply. I hate being stuck with a 2.2 kernel and that's all the floppy based boot allows me - no ext3 etc.
I dont understand what went wrong with makeing a small MacOS partition and then copying the system folder from the floppy to then make the mac boot. Add the cd extension and bootx and you should be fine. The only thing you may need is the rom file. MacOS cd's from OS8.6 included a rom file, god knows why, I noticed the ppc linux cd includes a rom file in its system folder which is why I get a little penguin sitting in front of a compact as the startup icon rather than this macs usual 2d front veiw of a compact or a happy mac
Just having to boot off the floppy is bad enough without being stuck with kernel 2.2
My installation failed on making the hard disk bootable - ofpath does not recognise my scsi device.
Which distro? You need the mech something driver, sorry dont remember, I had a list to choose from with MDK at the start of the install. YDL is more polished and found the drive ok, just gave no formatting options = poor.
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