On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> Thanks to Mitch Spector's iMac booting web page, I now have a pure diskless
> setup working for this 333mhz grape iMac. (Yes, it does appear to work with
> the 333mhz version!).  Of course, some comments...
> 
> 1. mountd and nfsd are presumed to appear in /sbin, but on i386/1.4.1 I found
> 	them in /usr/sbin.

What makes this presumption? They should be in usr/sbin..

> 2. I edited root/etc/ttys and changed the vt100's to vt220's so I wouldn't
> 	have to type it seperately for each login.

I think vt100 is supposed to work..

> 4. Don't seem to be having the "infinite repeat" problem on this machine. good
> 
> 5. If I hold down the N key on powerup, the first thing I see is the NetBSD
> 	dmesg in "Sun console font"; however when it gets to mounting the
> 	root device, it finds nothing and prompts for a root device BUT the
> 	keyboard is dead so I have to power-cycle it. It looks like we depend
> 	on some console/keyboard initialization that happens when you use the
> 	OpenFirmware command line to boot the kernel.

Yep. It was part of the goo to get the B&W to even boot.

> 6. If I try 'startx' with slightly modified skel startup scripts, I get:

This is a 1.4.1 or a -current kernel? This is exactly what I see on my
B&W in current. I didn't know 1.4.1 had been zapped..

Take care,

Bill