* Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-07 07:26:49 -0700]: > I lied about posting. Here is a highly technical question. > > I have an older Powerbook G3 that I'm working on. ... > 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. >
NetBSD has a whole lot of documentation on this. See the general Netbooting Howto[1] and the macppc-specific netbooting howto[2]. The whole macppc faq[3] has some very interesting stuff on Open Firmware. > Michael > -- > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Arlie Capps CS student at BYU [1] http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/ [2] http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.macppc.html [3] http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html --especially the Open Firmware and Booting sections. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
