Karmic Koala OldWorld Mac Installer

My custom "Old World" CD is ready, after several days (or was it nights?) of burning the candle at both ends as they say.

I set up a Google-site for it. In the "Files" section you can find CD images in toast and dmg format, so a Mac booting Classic Mac and Toast or Mac OS X (10.4 verified, 10.3 or 10.2 should/may work) and Disk Utility is required to burn the image at present. The link goes to an external host, namely dropbox, because the google site only offers 100Mb vs 2Gb for dropbox, which is why it says view, but that link actually triggers a download.

I know others have done this kind of thing with other Linux distros in ISO format, but I do not know all the ins and outs of making ISOs that are bootable on a Mac. As it is the mastering process was quite, uhm 'challenging' yeah that's the word I'm looking for...

But being a Mac-head even longer than a Linux fan, I got it working to boot directly from the CD, and also included BootX for those that can't/don't want to wipe the Mac OS partition.

Two flavors both based on the net install Mini-CD (these boot from the CD, load it into RAM and download the rest of whatever you choose to install from any available network interface):

Pico (barely bigger than the 'New World only' official mini-CD)
Nano (about twice the size, but with the kernel and ramdisk you would otherwise have to copy into your Mac OS partition already included, plus lots of Mac OS goodies to make everything smoother/more painless)

Please report success/failure so I can expand the compatibility table. And of course if the download works MD5 sums included in text file.

Enjoy and pass on to any Mac person who thinks throwing a working Mac away because Apple wants them to buy a new one is a waste:

https://sites.google.com/site/oldworldpowermacs/home

P.S. Hopefully a forum moderator will sticky this or at least link to it from the threads like "where to download Ubuntu PowerPC".

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