NetBooting old MacOS 8.x or 7x.
Swift Griggs
swiftgriggs at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 17:00:26 CDT 2016
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> In short: no.
Thanks, Cameron. At least now I know.
> In long: NetBoot requires a G4 or a late G3, and that would imply pretty
> much only 8.6 and up.
Hmm, that's what I'd seen so far and was lead to believe.
> You *can* netboot a *IIgs* from an AppleShare server (over LocalTalk),
> and I have in fact done that myself, but I've never seen this
> functionality on a 68K Mac or 60x Power Mac and the ROM doesn't know
> how.
Ahh, that explains some things I'd seen. Well, I'll do some jiggery-pokery
with some SCSI devices. I have a workaround. I just don't have one little
part I need (it's coming) and I was getting impatient.
-Swift
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