As a general rule, booting your Old World Mac from a CD is a simple matter. What is an “Old World Mac” you ask? Old World Macs are typically all Macs that preceded the beige G3 line. If your Mac is 68K based, it is an Old World Mac. If your PowerPC Mac has a numeric model number it is an Old World Mac. Starting with the beige G3s, Apple changed the onboard firmware to Open Firmware. Macs with Open Firmware are considered New World Macs. OK, now that we know what an Old World Mac is, let’s return to the topic of booting that Old World Mac from its CD drive. To do this you simply insert the CD and then restart your Mac while holding down the “c” key on the keyboard. The CD boots and all is well.
To see all your bootable drives, hold down the Alt/Option key while your Mac is booting. Start holding it before you see the apple logo, and keep holding until you see the list of bootable drives. From that menu you can select the USB drive to boot from.
In theory, booting a Linux CD shouldn’t be that much different, but in practice it is. Old World Macs seem to lack the flexibility to boot non Apple media, for reasons I have not fully investigated. Hence, following the above prescription with a Linux CD won’t normally get you anywhere. With some frustration, you will watch Mac OS start to boot up, completely ignoring the CD that you wanted the Mac to actually boot from. This blog post is about how to overcome this annoying behavior and get a Linux CD up and running on your Old World Mac.
BTW, my efforts in this area have been focused on PowerPC based Macs. Although there are Linux installs available for 68K Macs, I tend to think that performance would be an issue on such lower power machines, and have not investigated this particular avenue. I have also been running Mac OS 9.x on the Macs I have been trying this with, and so cannot comment on whether the below works for earlier releases of Mac OS.
- Create Bootable USB for Mac on Windows 10, Mac and Windows file system is completely different, so you are not able to create bootable USB for Mac with PowerShell, CMD or Rufus.If you remembered, till MacOS sierra the Apple file system was Hackintosh, but MacOS 10.13 High Sierra has the technology of Apple Filesystem. That’s why we can’t create bootable USB with.
- How to Set the Computer Boot from the Bootable Media. Step 1 Connect your external drive to your unbootable Mac. Step 2 Press down on the ‘Option’ key after restarting your Mac. Step 3 Once the booting has finished, your Mac will display the Startup Manager to show you the available boot drives. Select your external hard drive.
- If your Mac doesn’t boot after Step 3, hold down the Option key while booting to display the built-in Startup Manager. Use the built-in Startup Manager when you boot from a DVD. It displays icons for any bootable discs that it sees and allows you to select one (including the installation DVD).
- Set CD ROM Drive As First Boot Option on Mac OS X. Insert CD disc to CD-Rom. Restart Mac and press Option key. Do not lose the key until you see a screen that lists all drives. On this screen you will find internal hard drive as well as CD or USB drives. Click the CD drive you need to boot to start, or click the arrow below the drive to.
Honorable mention must be given to the good folks over at Linux MintPPC, who have actually delivered a truly bootable Linux CD. It is the only one I have found. Referring specifically to the following post in their forums (http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=839), I downloaded the MintPPC_9_Nano ISO mentioned, burned it to CD, and tried the “c” approach to boot my Power Macintosh 7300. Much to my delight, it worked. No muss, no fuss – the Linux installer booted up and started to run. Now as we have seen in an earlier post, the installer died later on, but at least the CD booted! MintPPC was the only Linux distro I found (and I tried a lot!) that provided a truly bootable Linux CD (at least for my Power Macintosh 7300). Kudos to “lubod” for a job well done.
As I alluded to in my last post, the answer to booting an Old World PPC Mac from a Linux CD lies in a venerable and wholly unsupported piece of Mac OS software called BootX. BootX is a Mac OS application, so you have to boot Mac OS first, and then boot Linux next. BootX has a system extension that will intercept the boot process as Mac OS comes up and redirect it to a Linux boot, but for this post, we will stick to the simplest approach: boot Mac OS and then run BootX to boot Linux.
First things first. Despite its unsupported status these days, you can still get BootX from a variety of sources. One of them is the above mentioned MintPPC CD, which includes a full copy of BootX, greatly simplifying things for folks taking that route. For those of you who don’t want to go to the bother of downloading and burning a CD just to get a copy of BootX, you can also get it online (as of this writing) at http://penguinppc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BootX_1.2.2.sit. I got this link from an excellent page on the general topic at http://mac.linux.be/content/apple-oldworld-computers.
At the most abstract level, BootX is just a Mac OS application, so go ahead and install it. The documentation says to install it in the System Folder, but personally, I installed it at the root of my hard drive – I hate to put non-essential software into my System Folder. “Install”, in this case means to simply copy the BootX folder to the destination. That is all that is needed.
With BootX now installed, we must digress, ever so briefly, into the Linux boot process, so that you understand how to use BootX. I will make this as painless as possible – I promise! The world of Linux includes a variety of boot loaders, with weird and wonderful names like LiLo and GRUB and a few others to boot (pun intended!). All of these beasts get invoked from the host computer’s firmware when it starts up, and then go through a series of bootstrapping steps until the full bootloader itself is up and running.
The next major step in the Linux boot process (and this is where BootX will join that process) occurs when the bootloader invokes the Linux kernel (the core of the operating system) by loading it into RAM and passing control to it. Since nothing is yet known about the hardware configuration of the machine the kernel is running on, it is typically started with a RAM disk, so that it has an initial file system to work with until it can discover the location of the file system on the disk it is booting off of.
So, to really get Linux underway on your Old World Mac you need just three things: a Linux CD, a Linux kernel and an initial RAMdisk image. Happily, the kernel and the ramdisk image will be available on the CD you are trying to boot. Every Linux distribution provides these two items, since they are essential parts of the boot process. Hence, if you have a Linux CD you are interested in trying to boot, you are “good to go”. You will NORMALLY find the kernel and the ramdisk image in the /boot folder of the Linux CD you are trying to boot.
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Conceptually, BootX’s operation is quite simple. Just point it at the appropriate Linux kernel and the associated ramdisk image and tell it to go. It loads both, passes control to the kernel, and Linux takes over your Mac. In reality, it really is almost that easy.
So, let’s try it! Find the Linux CD you want to boot. From a running copy of Mac OS, insert the CD and have a look at its contents. Find the /boot folder, or anything that has a Linux kernel and a ramdisk image, and copy those two files over to the Linux Kernels folder of the BootX folder you created when you installed BootX. A note of caution: some Linux distros support multiple architectures on the same CD. Debian is a good example of this. Make sure the kernel and ramdisk image you get are for the PowerPC architecture!
How will you recognize a Linux kernel and a ramdisk image? By general convention, Linux kernels are named something like “vmlinuz-2.6.8-ppc”, and the ramdisk image, properly referred to as an initial ram disk, or initrd, is usually named something very like “initrd-2.6.8-ppc.gz”. The important part of the above naming is the “vmlinuz” part and the “initrd” part. Find two files in the same folder with names like that, and you have found your kernel and your initial ramdisk image. Copy those over to your BootX installation and you are ready to go.
Running BootX is simplicity itself. Start it up, and you get the below GUI.
Point the Kernel drop down box to the kernel you have just copied over (it should be visible from the drop down box – anything in the Linux Kernels folder of the BootX install area shows up here). Click the Options button and you get this dialog:
Click the “Use specified RAM Disk” checkbox and use the Choose button to point to the initial RAM disk you copied over. Click the OK button to return to the main BootX dialog. For now, you can leave everything else blank. Simply click the Linux button and BootX will invoke the kernel you selected and you are off to Linux-land! Depending on your specific hardware and your degree of Linux savvy, you can start adding kernel arguments (stuff that is passed to the kernel as it is booted) and play with video driver settings too. All of that is beyond the scope of this particular post.
That’s it! You should be greeted with the usual Linux “text clatter” as it cranks through its start up process, and with any luck, everything may even work.
As we saw in my last post however, most of the Linux CDs out there don’t get along that well with older Macs, and so your mileage may vary. In my case, I can specifically recommend Ubuntu Breezy and MintPPC Linux 9, both of which fared reasonably well on my Power Macintosh 7300/200 with 256 MB of RAM.
I plan to install Linux on my Power Macintosh 7300/200 in the near future, but at present I am (im)patiently awaiting the arrival of a hard drive I ordered on eBay. When it arrives, I will add it to the machine, and install both Mac OS 9.1 and one of the above two Linux distributions. I will write a follow up post to fully document the Linux install process (vs. this post, which was simply about how to get the CD to even boot, so that you could get started!).
Potrace for mac. Xfig, Gimppath and PGM. Potrace is a free and open source image processing utility for, Linux and Mac OS X platforms, developed by Peter Selinger.Potrace mainly traces bitmap images and transform it into a smooth and scalable image. The common used for this program is to create EPS out of scanned images such as company or university logos and handwritten note like signatures etc.The resulting image is not jaggy like bitmap and can then be rendered at any resolution.Potrace currently produce the following output formats: EPS, PostScript, PDF, SVG. It supports various bitmap formats (PBM, PGM, PPM, BMP) and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file or EPS.
Until then, enjoy playing with Linux CDs on your Old World PowerMac!
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These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.
Download macOS
Find the appropriate download link in the upgrade instructions for each macOS version:
macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, ormacOS High Sierra
Installers for each of these macOS versions download directly to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS Catalina, Install macOS Mojave, or Install macOS High Sierra. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. Important: To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server.
Installers for each of these macOS versions download directly to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS Catalina, Install macOS Mojave, or Install macOS High Sierra. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. Important: To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server.
OS X El Capitan
El Capitan downloads as a disk image. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.
El Capitan downloads as a disk image. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.
Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal
- Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer. Make sure that it has at least 12GB of available storage and is formatted as Mac OS Extended.
- Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
- Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is still in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace
MyVolume
in these commands with the name of your volume.
Catalina:*
Mojave:*
High Sierra:*
El Capitan: - Press Return after typing the command.
- When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
- When prompted, type
Y
to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the bootable installer is created. - When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Catalina. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.
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Use the bootable installer
After creating the bootable installer, follow these steps to use it:
- Plug the bootable installer into a compatible Mac.
- Use Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences to select the bootable installer as the startup disk, then start up from it. Your Mac will start up to macOS Recovery.
Learn about selecting a startup disk, including what to do if your Mac doesn't start up from it. - Choose your language, if prompted.
- A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the Internet, but it does require the Internet to get information specific to your Mac model, such as firmware updates. If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi network, use the Wi-Fi menu in the menu bar.
- Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
Boot Mac Cd
Learn more
For more information about the
createinstallmedia
command and the arguments that you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter this path in Terminal:Catalina:
Boot Mac From Sd Card
Mojave:
Boot Mac From Cd Drive
High Sierra:
Create A Boot Cd
El Capitan: