I've been trying to install 1.5 on an older B&W G3. It's been 
upgraded from 350MHz to 450, has 320MB RAM, has a DVD drive and a Zip 
drive that was added on later. It has one 18GB hard drive, which is 
attached to a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 (ACARD,6260) card which likes 
to pretend it's a SCSI card. (Why?!)

I have to have the hard drive attached to the card to get it to boot 
MacOS. In order to boot Darwin, I have to have it attached to the 
motherboard. It boots fine if I attach it to the port marked "ULTRA 
ATA" on the motherboard.

NetBSD seems to be more picky. I have been netbooting it off my Q650, 
and in order to get a keyboard to work, I have to plug in my ADB 
keyboard, unplug my USB mouse (and my USB keyboard), enter OF, boot 
it, wait for the prompt asking if vt100 is ok, unplug the ADB 
keyboard and plug in the USB keyboard, hit shift, and then it works.

At the bottom of the screen there is a message about usb keyboard 
ihandle not found or something like that, then a message about adb 
keyboard ihandle not found. This happens however I have things 
plugged in, and it doesn't go away. I can get the exact message if 
anyone wants it.

OK, so I can get it into sysinst. The only way to get sysinst to 
recognize my hard drive is plug it into the motherboard where my Zip 
and DVD are currently plugged in... the ULTRA ATA port doesn't work.

To newfs the root filesystem: do I access it through /dev/rwd0h (8th 
partition, first IDE disk), or do I access it through /dev/rwd0a 
(root partition) or what? It would be nice if the process of avoiding 
sysinst was covered in the install doc.

I also read that Darwin sometimes trashes NetBSD partitions... does 
anyone know how to avoid this? Can I set the partition type to 
NETBSD? Can I do this with Bob Nestor's version of pdisk?

Sorry this is long, but I'm a bit confused on some points.

Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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