At 5:39 PM -0500 10/2/00, Eric Damien Berna wrote:
>Failing that, theoretically, you should be able to make a bootable 
>CD with the CD writer, then boot off the CD.  The problem is getting 
>a bootable NetBSD/macppc CD image.  You can find plenty of i386 port 
>bootable CDs offered by various companies, and even iso disk images 
>available for download, but no macppc port bootable CDs.  Maybe 
>somebody can make an image and make it available, or tell me how and 
>I'll try to make it available.

You could try talking to Bob Nestor.  He was working on the problem. 
If you sent him a stack of CD-R blanks and lots of moral (and 
test/diagnostic) support I'd bet you could get something.

>I think you'd want a current version of NetBSD.  -current supports 
>more of your PowerBook's hardware.

Yes, absolutely.


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