On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Robert Leenheer wrote:

> I know that's the way linuxPPC works. Under MacOS, you just copy a file
> to a blank floppy and then boot it from OF. What I don't know is the
> exact format of the file that's copied onto the floppy. 

It's an xcoff executable which loads a kernel with a memory disk.

NetBSD decided to not go this route initially as we wanted the kernel to
be booted off of a filesystem we could mount as root. There is no port of
an HFS filesystem to NetBSD at the moment. :-(

Take care,

Bill