Subject: Re: Beige G3 266 Desktop Installation help needed
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: CompuDroid <droid@zoo-crew.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/06/2002 16:13:47
Yes it is open firmware 2.4... still no luck.

-Will Bendick

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
> To: CompuDroid <droid@zoo-crew.org>
> Cc: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Beige G3 266 Desktop Installation help needed
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, CompuDroid wrote:
>
> > I can tell you for certain that booting from floppy drive is impossible=
 on
> > the 266 beige g3 model. It's one of the bugs in the OF code and will
> > probably never be fixed... HOWEVER booting from CD should theoretically=
 be
> > completely possible..... its just a matter of finding someone who has d=
one
> > it.
>
> Which version of OF do you have? My Beige G3 266 can boot from the floppy=
,
> and in fact was the first one to do so. :-)
>
> I however have OF 2.0f1. If you have OF 2.4, then things don't work.
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill
>

-CompuDroid
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