Subject: Re: FYI : macppc-1.5ZC snapshot
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Blair Stilwell <netbsd@hammock.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/04/2002 09:13:22
Emiel Kollof wrote:

> * Xavier HUMBERT (xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org) wrote:
> 
>>!! CAUTION !! In order to keep the INSTALL kernel small enought to fit on
>>a floppy, I'v stripped all the USB stuff !
>

> What about USB macs then? (iMac, G3, G4 etc..). Better make it blatantly
> obvious at the snapshot-site that the INSTALL kernel won't support USB,
> or you might get smited with user type questions :)
> 
> Oh.. can't most macs boot from CD-ROM, btw? Maybe we should look in
> getting the NetBSD install cd bootable by holding 'c' during the boing?


All of the iMacs, G3s (blue and white) and G4s can boot to CD and do not 
have built in floppy drives.  Ironically, the most feasible method of 
using a floppy with these is via USB floppy drive.

Blair Stilwell