One step further. I was finally able to load the kernel by ungziping the
kernel and copying it to the zip using the Finder (the zip is formatted
HFS), renaming it to netbsd only then typing directly boot zip:,netbsd from
OF. Now I got to the message:


...lots of info removed...

md0: internal 1600K image area
boot device: <unknown>
root on md0a dumps on md0b

Then it hangs here :-(

Should I give any parameters to the OF command? Can you suggest anything
that would help me passing this barrier?
I am using a Yosemite (B&W G3).
Thanks and sorry for the trouble,

Laurent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Tribo" <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
To: "Laurent de Segur" <lds@apple.com>
Cc: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: installation question


> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > First I am really curious to find out how active this email list.
Hopefully,
> > my mailbox will get lost of messages from this list in the future... ;-)
>
> It varies :)
>
> > I am trying to install netbsd on a B&W G3 (Yosemite) using the internal
> > atapi zip drive that came with the machine. There doesn't seem to be any
> > place I could find describing a way to create a netbsd boot volume on a
zip
> > disk
>
> It *should* be no different than writting a floppy disk image or a
> or a ramdisk install kernel. Try formatting a zip disk for MSDOS, grab
> suntar 2.2.2 from your nearest info-mac mirror. Enable expert mode, open
> the ZIP drive device, go to Special and overwrite sectors. Accept default
> sector zero and guide the program to the floppy boot.fs image. If that
> doesn't work, you could try using the netbsd_ram_MD image instead. If
> neither of those work, you may have to format and disklabel it within
> NetBSD.
>
> > If I don't have a server connected to this machine, I believe that there
> > isn't much hope to netinstall. And because the machine doesn't have a
floppy
> > drive, the last thing I can try is burning a cd with the image posted on
the
> > ftp site (1.4.2). Has anyone tried using this image on a Mac? Does it
work
> > directly by booting from the cd and then installing from it?
>
> Both Netbooting and cdboot *should* work for you. And yes the ISO
> image contains the installer and the sets within. I have not tried it
> though on my G3.
>
>