[Udpcast] How to udpcast on G5 Mac?

[Rishi R. Arora]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the tip on Live CD for G5.  It will surely save me some time
preparing the custom boot disk I was going to make for the G5 machines.
Since I can have a headstart with this CD, I can work on compiling udpcast
on a G5 machine.

Cheers!
-- 
Rishi R. Arora
LAN Administrator, Computing Services
University of Toronto at Mississauga

> Well, no.  However, I suspect you can get a Linux machine running on
> your network with the image you want to udpcast.  Gentoo seems to have
> live CDs available here:
>
> http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/livecd/g5/
>
> You may have to compile the udpcast client for PPC and put it in the
> image (or copy it onto each machine after booting -- yeech).  Then it
> should be a straightforward 'dd' to /dev/sda (or whatever).
>
> I don't think Linux can mkhfs+ so you're probably stuck with dd(/gzip).
>   Otherwise, you could create the filesystem, install the bootloader,
> and then udpcast and unpack a tarfile.
>
> rgds,
> Chris
>