Re: [WinMac] iMac & NT4/PPC

Liam Helmer(image53[at]axionet.com)
Tue, 8 Sep 98 12:36:11 -0700

>>We were unable to get the NT4 Workstation CD to boot on our iMac. :( Not
>>to say that some other method couldn't be tried, but all we got was the ?
>>icon swapping with the MacOS folder icon. Kind of like the iMac was
>>asking - hey - where's the MacOS system folder, huh?
>>________________________________________________
>>Ethan C. Banks - Network Engineer
>>Pensacola Christian College & Related Ministries
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
>>> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu]On Behalf Of Dan Schwartz
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 8:17 AM
>>> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>>> Subject: [WinMac] Re: Macs doing other things
>>> The one question yet to be answered is if NT will run on the iMac, since
>>> the iMac is Mac ROMless... Unfortunately, M$ stopped suporting the PowerPC
>>> version of NT after NT4's Service Pack 2.

If it is going to work, as it's not a MacOS based OS, you'd need to tell
Open Firmware to boot off of a non-mac disk, and specify the partition,
etc. There's a utility you can get from www.linuxppc.org to do that call
boot variables at
<ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org//linuxppc/powermac/bootvars-1.3a.sit.hqx>, though
I'm not 100% sure that it'll work with NT (I haven't tried NT on a
PowerMac). This program is not terribly userFriendly, and requires basic
knowledge of OF boot commans (info available in apple's developer website).

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