On Friday 07 May 2004 00:54, Darren wrote:
Adrian McMenamin wrote:
On Friday 07 May 2004 00:04, Darren wrote:
>>for use in sheepshaver. ;)
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. ;)
"Sheepshaver"
PPC MacOS emulation for nix of platfroms other than Apple. :)
You need a good rom and the update one you can download from apple or versiontracker wont do the job. It's alot like MoL but slower.
These are both MacOS emulator for Nix.
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
Are you saying the CD is bootable?
To a point, it doesn't get further on my hardware.
We are talking about the system folder on the *Linux PPC 2000* cd, here are some elses words about its use and why it doesn't boot any further:
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I followed the instructions which are wrong, it doesn't install the fake System file to the small Mac partition /boot. You need to copy the fake System file from the CD to the Mac partition and modify Yaboot.conf to boot from the desired kernel. The rest is more or less how they tell you to in the manual. I get a really nice splash screen with Q4. Full colours - then it boots into the desktop with 8 bit colour
================== Mike NZ.
The colour was fixed. :) This explains why the cd gets so far and then stops, its meant to be copied across to the /boot partition to boot that distro without the need of bootx making it almost transperant.
Whether this can be applied to another distro??
The problem I had was that while the method you'd suggested before did appear to make the CD's readable, everytime I clicked on something to run it I was told something like "too many files are open" and then I would start to get messages about how the CD extensions had failed.
Which disk tools version did you use? If it were the 7.5 it is possibly to old for your mac as maybe the 8.1 version. the 8.5 may need the rom.file added for your mac, I'm guessing now.
The Debian install worked flawlessly except for the fact I cannot make my harddisk boot and so have to use a modified installation floppy.
Old world requires a bootable media to run bootx which loads the kernel to boot linux, I only have 68k experience with debian, no floppy boot option. I'm glad the floppy works on ppc macs.
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.
Debian 3.0 (woody)
If its old world I can see no other way, deb floppy or a small MacOS boot partition on some other media.
I'd like to be very wrong on any of the above. The "too many files open" error rings a bell but its not something I've seen. As macs are normally shipped with a OS install cd or a rescue cd, 8.5 and above cd's all contained rom files. Checking your machines base OS if its 8.5 or above the problem may be the rom file and/or the system resources file. I dont know what model mac you have so I don't know how much newer yours is compared to mine.
In general I've found the system folder contained on a bootable cd like the norton utilities disk to be very flexible for custom use on old and early new world macs (imacs,G4's).
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