Subject: Re: performa 5400/160 ?
To: Rafael Alejandro Hinojosa <hinojosa@cs.swarthmore.edu>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/29/2000 09:40:45
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Rafael Alejandro Hinojosa wrote:

> > BTW: You'll want to download a copy of "bootvars" to dink with 
> >      OpenFirmware settings.  System Disk won't work on 5400's.
> >      Use "suntar 2.2.2" or later to create the install floppy.
> > 
> 
> I don't think System Disk works on machines with OF Version 2.0, but I
> could be wrong.  I'm not even sure it works on machines with IDE drives
> but I haven't come across a G3 to install NetBSD on yet... :-)

	It should work even though it complains about not support the
machine (this is probably an error relating to using MacOS X to which the
tool was intended to be used). One cannot boot by either SCSI or IDE on
most of the Beige G3's without System Disk's patches FWIW.


	Chris