Re: install files on mac UFS partition (mac mini G4)

Hi David,



On 04.11.21 13:43, David Brownlee wrote:
>>> Do we know which other macs can boot from MBR disks? Does it work to
>>> install onto a USB drive (very handy for testing :)?

>> I don't know about other Macs, but for the mac mini G$, I can say that
>> it does boot from a USB CD-ROM drive, but it does not boot from USB
>> flash-drives.
>> I have't tried connecting an external USB disk.
> 
> Thanks - that's good to know (in a "Grrr Apple" sense :)

I think that the USB Flash-drives where not really a thing in 2005 when 
the mac mini G$ was introduced, and I do remember that a USB flashsdrive 
does present itself differently to the host then a USB drive (and surely 
differently then a USB CDROM drive).



>> A small question.
>> Does the netbsd/macppc community (or the netbsd in general) have a
>> matrix room, or an IRC channel for interactive chat?
> 
> There is #netbsd:nil.im for general NetBSD chat - (quick link
> https://matrix.to/#/#netbsd:nil.im for anyone who wants to dip in
> using a web browser)

In the matrix.org directory, I found three references to netbsd:
one on nil.im
one in matrix.org which seems to have been replaced by the latter
one on freenode, which I guess, is a bridge to an IRC channel.

I'll try to work on this weekend and see if I can this fixed. (I really 
need to find that shop wher you can buy that 4 additional hours per day 
:-) )


Kr.




> 
> David
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