I lied about posting. Here is a highly technical question.on boot hold down 'n' much like you would holding down 'c' to boot from the CDROM.
I have an older Powerbook G3 that I'm working on and for reasons we
won't get into here (like I dropped it and broke the hard drive and then
we gave away the cdrom drive thinking the whole machine was broken) it
is without a cdrom drive. I was wondering the other day if I could
netboot the thing off of a tftp-based linux-kernel image. I know it can
be done, but Apple's openfirmware is sufficiently different from Sun
Microsystem's (Apple's is based on Sun's) that I can't figure out how
and the docs on the internet are very few. I can set the boot device
with setenv boot-device, but I can't seem to find out what the network
device should. If any of you apple owners know, I would appreciate it. On a Sun I would type boot net, but that doesn't work on the Apple forth
prompt.
The funny thing is, I bet most Apple users never know that their computer has a bios, and a powerful, forth-based one at that complete with a command prompt. Oh that Intel had been so wise when they created the crap for bioses that we have on pc's today. (Face it: PXE is a hack around such limitations).
Michael
Here's a good howto on setting it up: http://frank.gwc.org.uk/~ali//nb/
I've always been impressed with Apple hardware. especially the bios. Even though I had a bad experience with my powerbook, I still like the hardware a lot. I'd like to get another apple computer in the future.
Art
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