on 7/20/01 11:01 AM, Todd Vierling at tv@wasabisystems.com wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, caportel wrote:
> 
> : > You have to try it twice. There's a big in the OFW driver and the floppy
> : > always fails the first time.
> 
> : I tried several times - even restarting OF to cleaning things - and got an
> : error. The boot.fs image seems to be the only way to boot the installer on
> : this machine (I always do it twice), since I've never got a working boot
> : directly from the CD.
> 
> By "the" CD, are you referring to the macppccd.iso on ftp.netbsd.org?  This
> is important, as most other third-party-generated ISOs don't boot on all
> versions of OFW.
> 
> To my knowledge, the macppccd.iso for 1.5 (and hence, also the one for
> 1.5.1) on ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/iso/ should boot just fine on OFW 1, 2,
> 2.4, and 3.

I bought my CDs from Daemon News Mall and, posted before, very recently I
discovered my machine can be booted from that if I set the CD-ROM to be the
boot-device.

Did not know the CDs are not the same as from netbsd.org, had to be more
selective ;-). Thanks!


Carlos Portela