Hello Justin,
On the last weekend i made download of ISO's " 3.0 and
3.0.1 " to know
whether my Media Cd-rom could be wrong, but i was deceive.
After i
burn my new Medias, i tried to test in many ways, but always
got the
same errors.
I confess that i was a little frustated with NetBSD
documentation and
bugs about boot firmware / cdrom and of floppy disks that
didn't work,
i didn't pretend losting much time installing NetBSD on my
box, i got
to think that using a Mac OS X 10.3 Tiger is more easy.
I'm going to try the another possibility burning the
ofwboot.xcf and
netbsd.macppc on the cdrom, when i try this i tell you about
the
results. Thanks a lot.
regards,
Marcos
On 11/5/06, Justin Davis <jrcd83 gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marcos,
>
> I have installed NetBSD on my Power Macintosh 9600/300
a few months
> ago. I was never able to get the NetBSD install CD to
boot properly.
> When I did 'boot scsi-int/sd3:0 NETBSD.MACPPC' as
prescribed it would
> just hang the system. Apparently my open firmware does
not like the
> install CD, it can't dir anything on the CD either.
>
> However, if I burn OFWBOOT.XCF and a netbsd kernel to a
plain-old
> regular ISO CD, open firmware can dir the cd drive and
boot the
> OFWBOOT.XCF and NETBSD.MAC files! But I was lazy and
just boot off
> the floppy disks because I did not want to make my own
custom CD. You
> might see if a plain old ISO CD works with the dir and
boot commands.
>
> Hope that helps... I spent alot of time struggling to
get the install
> cd to boot but never succeeded.
>
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