At 11:15 AM +0200 8/8/02, Emiel Kollof wrote:
>I know this was mentioned a few months ago, but that discussion 
>fizzled without any useful results...
>
>Why isn't the NetBSD macppc iso bootable by just holding 'c' on the 
>keyboard? Why doesn't NetBSD-macppc use a OpenFirmware Boot 
>partition like the linuxen do? I still think it would be seriously 
>cool if one could make the NetBSD boot process just as 
>straightforward as the linux one. Linux uses yaboot for newword 
>machines, could we too?
>
>Just a question, or maybe a feature request.

I thought one of the issues from that discussion was whether the 
linux approach would support the "old world" machines that NetBSD 
supports.  That still doesn't mean we couldn't make a CD that would 
support multiple boot procedures.  Are you volunteering to make it 
happen?  ;-)
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