Subject: Re: First time install on new B&W G3
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/08/1999 12:56:27
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> Didn't we figure that it should work booting from CD-ROM?  Of course all
> the current CD-ROM's have the necessary stuff stored gzip'ed and you would
> need to make special arrangements with somebody to have the CD-ROM built
> with the right stuff uncompressed.

Do the CD-ROM's now have netbsd.ram.gz on them? That's what we really want
for an installation.

What would work is if ofwboot.elf is around on the CD. The newer OFW can
boot it, and it can boot compressed kernels. :-)

Take care,

Bill