On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Eric Damien Berna wrote:

> I'm having the hardest time making the boot floppy.  The instructions first
> mention the boot floppy in the section headed "NetBSD/macppc Subdirectory
> Structure" and give the description "macppc boot and installation floppies;
> see below."  It's mentioned in the section "Running the Sysinst
> Installation Program: 4. Quick install" with the sentence, "Insert the boot
> floppy you just created."  But it doesn't include how to make that boot
> floppy.

Get the suntar program. It will let you copy the bootfloppy.fs onto a
disk.

> Also, the section "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" ends with
> what appears to be missing text.  The last paragraph reads:
> 
> 	The NetBSD uses the standard sysinst installation utility.
> 	You should examine the guide on the NetBSD /
> 
> On the NetBSD what?
> 
> Oh, one last thing.  What happened to the security set for the NetBSD 1.4
> distribution of NetBSD/macppc?  It's not on the ftp.netbsd.org server, nor
> the two US mirrors I checked.

The port master, Tsubai, made the distribution. As he is in Japan, he
couldn't build the security set. None of us US developers got off our
butts and did it too. :-(

Take care,

Bill