The question then is -- "How?" When I originally asked about this, the
problem was that I had downloaded the image and burned a CD-R. I could
access the installation using the boot floppy image, but I could never
boot directly off the CD. I was trying on a PowerMac 6500/300 which
has an IDE Hard Disk but a SCSI CD. It runs OFW 2.0.3. Tell me what to
try to get it to boot. I would not be surprised if I had some typos.

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:09AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> FYI; I missed this thread the first time around.
> 
> : The readme file at the NetBSD site says, "The following architectures
> : _do_ have bootable CD images: alpha, i386, macppc, pmax, sparc, vax."
> : It does NOT say the the macppc image is a hybrid unusable to owners of
> : older PowerMacs.
> 
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> 
> : Hmmm, you definitely shouldn't be able to boot from a hybrid disk (AFAICT),
> 
> The macppccd.iso image in misc/iso on the official ftp.netbsd.org mirrors
> *is* bootable on all of OFW 1-3.  It's prepared by the src/distrib/cdrom
> makefile tools, and is a HFS/ISO hybrid CD (OFW3/2.4) with an Apple
> Partition Map and bootblock (OFW1/2).  The ofwboot used is "ofwboot.xcf" in
> all cases, even for OFW3.
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling (tv@netbsd.org)

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