At 10:51 AM 12/15/95, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>
>> > IMHO it is more important to get NetBSD/mac68k to boot _native_ without
>> > requiring a MacOS license, or 'Booter'.

>> > The real question, I guess, is:  Does anyone other than me want this
>> > functionality?  I personally don't use the IIci for any "Mac" type stuff,
>> > so having the ability to use MacOS isn't necessary for me.
>>
>> I'd like to see it.  It's just not a priority for me.  ;-)

I don't think we'll ever see it.  See below - but i'd like to see it too.

>I don't really care about booting w/o MacOS, but I agree it would be nice
>to boot to NetBSD quicker than presently. One intermediate solution might
>be to work to squeeze everything onto a floopy. Doesn't System 7 still
>respect the "first-launch" parameter of the boot block even though the
>Finder is a special program for the OS? If we made a boot floppy w/
>just the system file and Booter, couldn't we get the system to run Booter
>automatically?

Yes, and since the mac will _NOT_ boot to anything other than an HFS
partition with a blessed system folder, this is the closest way to boot
without making a "fake" macOS.  Way to hard - I'd never ask for that do be
done.

Basically, if someone could find a way to make a floppy boot as many macs
as possible, or write a manuel on how to make a boot floppy for your
machine, we could provide a finder/booter that you'd just copy over the
finder the installer placed there.

I'm trying to get the info on how to make an app into a "finder" that could
just overwrite the existing one.  (Like a MacTools/Norton emergency disk).
When I do, i'll fix up a booter that will do this.


Shawn.

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