I read my message and realized I might be misunderstood.  Just want to
make clear that I can boot from the floppy and use the CD to
install. As far as I can tell the CD images I've downloaded are not
bootable on my computer. They are accessible after starting to run
sysinst from the floppy.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:16:19PM -0400, josh@ssimr.com wrote:
> The weekend starts and I resume trying to install NetBSD on my
> PowerMacintosh 6500. 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:47:35PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> > At 8:04 PM -0400 4/23/01, josh@ssimr.com wrote:
> 
> > Try (from the boot floppy) running 'disklabel cd0' to see what the
> > partitions are.  Perhaps the ISO partition isn't the one that you're trying
> > to mount. Remember, NetBSD doesn't natively support HFS filesystems.
> > 
> 
> I followed this advice and then found I could install using the
> CD. The defaults are good if I choose to install by the cdrom
> method. I still have no idea why I had problems installing over a
> network. It made no difference if I used the ISO image from the NetBSD
> site or from Iowa. Neither CD is actually bootable, both will work as
> a data source for the sysinst program.
> 
> Now for the new problems:
> 
> I run the install - I tried with both CDs that I now have - and the
> install runs fine. When I try to boot it hangs after acting like it is
> going to work. It starts to boot but can't complete. I strongly
> suspect I'm violating some configuration requirement in my disk
> formatting.
> 
> 
> 0 > boot ata/ata-disk@0:0
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> >> (matt@duel.local, Thu Nov 16 17:26:57 PST 2000)
> 2001124+237436 [100+105392|
> 
> -- 
> Josh Kuperman
> josh@ssimr.com
> http://www.ssimr.com

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