On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Donald Lee wrote:

: Would it be cool, or what, if we could boot from CD with the 'c' key??
:
: Do we know enough about how Apple does this to build a bootable CD?
: (NetBSD, or course)

[I'm the one maintaining the multi-arch CD creation tools]

It involves putting a CHRP script into the HFS partition containing
automated boot info.  I have some of the info on doing this, and will be
getting a macppc at some time in the near future to test it out.

: As it is now, it is *required* to boot a kernel to do an install, and it
: would be nice to do be able to do the install from MacOS in some cases.

The official trend is toward only using the sysinst method of installation,
not away from it.  When partition editing works properly on mac68k, the
"Installer" for mac68k will be considered obsolete and not included with
future releases.

If you must install from MacOS, I'd have to wonder why the install kernel
doesn't work (and whether you'd actually be able to get a standard kernel to
boot :).

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