Subject: Re: adding a new on an existing NetBSD Drive
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/09/1997 13:55:57
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > Can the NetBSD drive be made bootable such that NetBSD gets loaded without
> > going into MacOS?
> 
> Someone worked on it, but I don't know how well it works. The problem I see
> is that we still get lots of state about the machine from MacOS.
> 
> You CAN make a small bootable MacOS partition, and put the booter in
> the startup items folder. If you have the booter autoboot, you will
> get into NetBSD unattended.

Also, there is an alpha version of a booter extension...take a look at:

http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/

for a pointer to the page about the extension.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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