On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:57:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
> Reply-To: ender@macbsd.com
> To: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
> Cc: port-mac68k Mailing List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: native NetBSD booter
> 
> 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.
> 

What a very curious idea :) Ingenious actually.

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


Cheers,
Sean