Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> 
> > Wow, it seems to me like older Macintosh can ONLY boot into MacOS. Seems
> > kind of strange. I like the extension idea, since I don't have to wait for
> > MacOS to finish booting before it starts the booter.
> 
> Will you always be booting into NetBSD? If you're working unattended, just
> install a stripped-down MacOS & stick the booter in the startup items
> folder. If you're at the console, just boot w/o extentions, then fire up
> the booter.
> 
> The problem is that Apple didn't put in a firmware that's as nice as
> OpenFirmware. They put in something which is enough to get their OS's
> going & that's it. :-(

if you want to go a step farther, throw out the Finder.  move the Booter
to the System Folder.  change it's type and creator to 'MACS' and 'FNDR'
(actually, i'd suggest seeing what the Finder's type and creator are,
since i may be remember it incorrectly).  you'll probably have to rename
the Booter to Finder as well.

the next time you reboot, you'll go into the booter instead of the finder.
if you don't really want to look at the booter, you can set it to autoboot
on a 0 second delay.

that's about as minimal as you can get at the moment.

later.

colin