At 4:23 AM -0800 1/7/01, David Henderson wrote:
>1. How do I tell "NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2" 
>that the netbsd.ram.gz file is on the CDROM?

Just stick the filename on the command line in place of the "-a" or 
enter it after the Boot: prompt.  I think the default device is where 
ofwboot.xcf itself came from.

>3. Do I ignore the section in the FAQ that says that I need to 
>mangle the file names to the 8x3 MS-DOS format and put the names in 
>upper case?

The answer may depend on the OF version you are running and your CD 
burner program.  Why don't you do a "dir scsi/sd@3:0" and see what it 
says about the disk you created?  If it's a real ISO format disk then 
the filenames are supposed to be all-caps-8.3 with version numbers 
after a ';'.  The version numbers are not needed if it's OF 1.0.5 I 
can say from experience, but if the files are recorded with them you 
need to enter them.

 From your email you are "pretty close".  There is probably some 
strange apparently-irrelevant setup in OF that is interfering with 
the load.  I suggest you try checking/changing all the things you can 
in the OF setup to see what has an effect (yeah, I know, not a very 
specific suggestion).

Good luck.


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