Subject: Re: iMac and NetBSD 1.4.2
To: Isobel <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Jeffrey Flowers <sikak43@gateway.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/26/2000 16:09:01
I have a zip drive for my iMac but it is a USB Zip drive. Does it work with
the NetBSD installer?


Jeff

Isobel Wrote:
> [I have a G4/AGP/Sawtooth, ATI-128]
> I downloaded this kernel
>
>     ftp://nandra.iri.co.jp/pub/NetBSD/macppc/netbsd.md.gz
>
> put it on a HFS ZIP (not HFS+), with ofwboot.elf and netbsd.md.
>
> In OpenFirmware, I just do `boot zip:netbsd.md', it says it hasn't got
place
> enough.
> Then I run ofwboot.elf (`boot zip:owfboot.elf'), I quit it (`exit')
> And retype (` boot zip:netbsd.md'). Then it runs perfectly. The install
> launches... I am in the install process at the moment (rebooting on MacOS)
> to get the magic network numbers for ftp install...