Re: Installing openbsd on emac without disk drive?

Rino Rondan <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:23:37 +0000

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Yes, In my case I test several models, and the worst scenario was when I need to find the hardware device name and use it to boot.
Link I used to understand how to search the device name.
https://sites.google.com/site/shawnhcorey/howto-boot-apple-powerpcs-from-a-usb-drive-in-open-firmware

And then in order to check if the device is correctly ready I use this link to understand how read the information of usb disk.
https://www.fenestrated.net/mirrors/Apple%20Technotes%20(As%20of%202002)/tn/tn2001.html

I know they are several official information, it is only my particular experience, I hope help someone.


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On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 10:09 AM, Daniel Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I followed that guide and it did not work on my computer. OF wouldn’t recognize the thumb drive as a bootable medium — and I tried a bunch of different drives. That said, it’s certainly worth giving it a shot because it’s a lot simpler than TFTP/NFS. But after talking to some devs, it seems their experience was like mine: USB booting works on some Macs, but not others, hence the lack of official support.
> 

> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Sep 26, 2018, at 7:10 AM, Rino Rondan [email protected] wrote:
> > Yes, the link https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/macppc/INSTALL.macppc did not said nothing about usb, but you can make dd of cd iso and use usb disk like a disk with openfirmware
> > boot ide1:,ofwboot /bsd (example) at least work me in Ibook,powerbook,Macmini,Imac without any problem, you can use the printenv variable of usb disk, or you can search with ls the device tree and put the name of usb disk instead the printenv variable. I never try with Gcube..
> > 

> > Regards
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> > Rino
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> > > On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 8:31 AM, Daniel Boyd [email protected] wrote:
> > > Booting via USB isn’t officially supported, so your mileage may vary. I never could get it working on my G4 Cube (which has a dead CD drive). I ended up doing TFTP/NFS network booting which is officially supported.
> > 

> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > 

> > > > On Sep 26, 2018, at 5:16 AM, Rino Rondan [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Lucas, which model do you have? You can install with usb , I did it , you can start looking https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html, in the part of installation you have the ways to do it . You need to use some command in openfirmware to but the usb drive. Also you can prepare de image in the disk drive too.
> > > > Regards
> > > > —
> > > > Rino
> > 

> > > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Lucas [email protected] wrote:
> > > > > I recently got my hands on a 1.42GHZ Emac with a faulty disk drive, is it possible to use a usb or firewire external disk drive to install OpenBSD and if not is there another way to install OpenBSD on my Emac?
> > > > > Thanks.
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