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So here’s my dilemma. I’m downloaded the DVD image for OS X Tiger (because my mailing still hasn’t arrived). I do not have a DVD burner. Anywhere. Now, how can I install this over the network? Target disk mode<\/a> will not be useful for me, but NetRestore<\/a> might help, except I need a generic OS X installation around somewhere (it seems to suggest 10.4, Tiger, which I don’t have!). If this was Fedora, I could just burn the boot.iso, and loopback mount the image! Any Mac heads know a solution? I don’t mind an ugly OF based solution either; except I can’t boot the dmg via tftpboot? Update:<\/b> The mailing arrived. Of course, I decided to do a nice clean reinstallation, so I repartitioned. Guess what? No sight of 10.3 on disk means 10.4 won’t install. Urgh, nowhere on the DVD does it say “upgrade”. <\/p>\n

Looked at some Extras failures, after Jeremy kicked off a rebuild<\/a>. Most of the PPC related ones have attached logs to them now, and some made it to a post-it note as “solving hopefuls”. Low hanging fruit might best be ExclusiveArch’ed. Also noticing a lot of PPC related inquiries going to fedora-test-list, rather than fedora-ppc list – this needs to change! In other news, I’m playing around with the wiki<\/a> for Supported Power PCs<\/a> – i.e. whatever we support well, or we don’t support, should be listed here on a colloborative wiki page.<\/p>\n

Was looking into buying a PDA – either a Tungsten E2 or some other offering from Palm. Now it looks like I’ll just wait, save up, and buy the Nokia 770, and get on with maemo<\/a>. Its so nice to make sure you have something that always “just works” – not to say that Familiar isn’t just working at the moment (the upgrade from 0.72 was so welcome).<\/p>\n

Bought a firewire cable today – the iBook G3 got Tiger installed via Firewire target disk mode. X11 can get installed that way too, but XCode2 wouldn’t. Weirdness. Got nice e-mail from the asiasource folk, and there’s the AsiaSource booklet<\/a>, written by Frederick Noronha thats a worthy read as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here’s my dilemma. I’m downloaded the DVD image for OS X Tiger (because my mailing still hasn’t arrived). I do not have a DVD burner. Anywhere. Now, how can I install this over the network? Target disk mode will not be useful for me, but NetRestore might help, except I need a generic OS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}