Subject: Re: Need test of OFW 1/OFW 2 boot CD image
To: None <mw@blobulent.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/01/2000 22:46:56
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

: Would someone with a OFW 1 or 2 machine please burn the following image and
: attempt to boot it?  It is a hybrid HFS/ISO prepared with mkhybrid, with
: "ofwboot.xcf", "ofwboot.elf", and "netbsd" (from netbsd.ram.gz of 1.5_BETA)
: listed in both filesystems.  To save other people a blank CD, please post
: the boot result to the list.

Well, it died.  I found more information elsewhere about OFW 1 trying to
find a System file in the HFS partition, which rather sucks(!), so the
hfsiso version is out for OFW 1:

:     ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-hfsiso.iso.gz

I'm investigating the alternatives now.

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