On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Mike Bush wrote:

> If your using a premade iso then all you need to do is burn it. The INSTALL
> instructions/FAQs are for making your own image from scratch. Also, if you
> are using one of the premade iso's please read the mailing list archives.
> The iso's I made only boot newer OF machines and you'll need to boot with a
> command like "boot cd:,ofwboot.elf netbsd.ram.gz" once in OF.

the premade iso's boot on OFW1,2,3.  Todd spent some time to make this
happen.  If you have a netbsd, solaris, linux, etc machine you can use
cdrecord to burn the CD.

-Dan


> FYI: The only cd-writer I have is on a windows2000 machine and but burns
> just fine (Adaptec EZ-CD). I have no way to test Toast. I assume it works
> fine as well.
> 
> Mike Bush
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Rogers" <drogers@halo7.net>
> To: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: How to mount macppccd.iso
> 
> 
> > Im having the same problem with the iso.  So you're saying to just burn
> the
> > file to a disk?  That won't work.  Everything I've read in the FAQ's says
> to
> > use Toast to mount it, you get two partitions, one hfs and one iso9660.
> > Then drag them over to toast.  The only problem is I get errors when I do
> > this.  So if anyone has successfully made a cd from those iso' let us know
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Olaf Beyer wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Folks,
> > >>
> > >> I'm a newbie to the UNIX-Stuff, but I'll like to install NetBSD as
> > >> Training for our UNIX-Server with Apache running. So I download the
> > >> "macppccd.iso"-image and want to burn it as a bootable installer-cd.
> > >>
> > >> My two ones:
> > >>
> > >> 1. Can I do "a bootable installer-cd" with this, or did I miss the
> point?
> > >>
> > >> 2. I have 66MB-File after download on my desktop. I think I have to
> > >> mount this image to burn it, right?! But no tool (Toast, Expander,
> > >> diskcopy) did the job, how to mount this?
> > >
> > > The image you downloaded should be bootable once you burn it to CD.  You
> > > do not need to mount the image in order to burn it.  It shoulds like
> > > you're using MacOS in which case you should be able to use Toast to
> write
> > > the image to CD.
> > >
> > >
> > >> OK thats my problem(s). I hope I get it to you - english is not my
> > >> language, sorry.
> > >
> > > your english is quite good :)
> > >
> > > -Dan
> > >
> >
> >
>