Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Booting from floppy every time is a pain -- especially since floppies > tend to go bad (wear out, actually) over time. But it's a possible > option in the rare case when you haven't got access to any MacOS{89} > install CD. > > But th

Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: To support starting from just a Debian CD on all oldworld boxes as well as install a bootable system, we need to do the following: 1) Write disk drivers for SCSI and IDE (both HD and CD-ROM) 2) License the patches from Apple (or somehow re

Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:54:53AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Let me see if I've got this right... [ Massive snip ] Yes, that looks accurate to me. > I don't think that alternative (a) is going to happen. There just > isn't the critical mass to get such a project off the ground. You'll not

Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-30 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote: > ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the > vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware. > Personally, I think alternative (b) is not viable either -- it's > just too much pain for anyone to put up

Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, at 06:07 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote: ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware. Personally, I think alternative (b) is not vi