Subject: Re: iMac and NetBSD 1.4.2
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Donald Lee <donlee_ppc@icompute.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/27/2000 07:57:12
At 6:09 AM -0500 4/26/00, Cliff Crawford wrote:
>* Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> menulis:
>> Jeffrey Flowers wrote:
>> 
>> > I have a zip drive for my iMac but it is a USB Zip drive. Does it work with
>> > the NetBSD installer?
>> 
>> I might if you install -current.
>
>I don't think iMacs can boot from any USB device.  I'm pretty sure
>that they can't boot from a USB hard drive, so I don't see why a
>USB zip would be any different.

Apple has put in rudimentary booting capability in the latest iBook and
iMac computers (the ones with the USB code in boot ROM - iBook and iMac DV).
FireWire booting is also in the plans, although I'm not sure it works yet.

-dgl-