At 11:50 AM -0800 11/19/01, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

:)At 7:22 PM +0000 11/19/01, Simon Troup wrote:
:)>I have a 5500 and believe from what I've read that the only way to install
:)>netBSD on it is to zterm over a serial connection into the printer or modem
:)>port to reset OF. The only other machines I have are a G4 and iMac, neither
:)>of which has serial ports. So, am I stuffed or is there hope?
:)
:)If you feel like buying a USB to serial adapter I suspect you could
:)get zterm to run on it.  No guarantees though.

That works fine.  I've used MacOS X, ZTerm, and a Keyspan USB serial
adapter to boot various serial console machines (except a NeXT Cube which
requires handshaking lines to be set before it powers up).

  -- MW