At 7:20 PM -0600 5/26/01, Marc "No Junk" Bathgate wrote:

:)I am trying to install NetBSD 1.5 on a PowerBook 3400c. However, every
:)time I try to boot from OpenFirmware, I am confronted with the following
:)error message:
:)
:)unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#formatstate-not-valid
make sure you typed the file name in with the same case (all caps, all
lower case) as the dir command returns.

make sure you downloaded the file(s) in binary mode.

Good luck,
  -- MW