Subject: Re: Apple PowerMacintosh Beige G3, Revision 2, Open Firmware 2.4
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_G=C9R=D4ME?= <ag@roxor.be>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Sch=F6ler?= <eclipser23@web.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/01/2004 14:34:03
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Here are the instructions to boot this machine:
>>>> <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2>.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I have no legacy MacOS. My sole MacOSX runs only on
>>>> a laptop with no floppy drive.
>>>>
>>>> I request a little from someone who has a MacOS version above 8.0
>>>> running on a floppy drive machine to create a SystemDisk needed to
>>>> flash my OpenFirmware.
>>>>
>>>> Instructions to do so are here:
>>>> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/>.
>>>>
>>>> To wit, the MacOS 8.1 boot floppy did not work for me. :(
>>>>
>>>> If someone would be so kind to create a floppy with these tools on
>>>> MacOS, dd it on a file on a Unix System, and then upload it=20
>>>> somewhere,
>>>> it would be nice. :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> as soon as i got my breakfast in i can do it for you ;)
>>>
>>> i sent this reply to the list too in case somebody else might be
>>> interested in the image...
>>>
>>> cheers!
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i am sorry, but the only machine i do have (up and running, that is)
>> with a floppy drive besides my PowerBook is a SPARCstation 20MP -- i
>> tried, but NetBSD complains about it's floppy controller, gives a lot
>> of error messages when dd'ing... :(
>
> Damn! :(
>
> It is sure that if you do not have a floppy drive, you cannot make
> an image of a floppy...
>
> Are you aware of a Unix tool to work on these Apple Disk Images
> produced by Apple Disk Copy?
>
> Cheers.
> --=20
> Aur=E9lien G=C9R=D4ME
>
> Free Software Developer
> Unix Sys & Net Admin

hi Aur=E9lien,

i'll try to do it with Mac OS X' on board tools... ;)

regards,

timo