Subject: Re: macppc boot cd how-to?
To: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
From: Rich Noonan <macppc@fightgravity.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/05/2002 09:41:37
On Thursday 05 September 2002 01:25, Daniel Eggert wrote:
> On torsdag, sep 5, 2002, at 06:31 Europe/Copenhagen, Rich Noonan wrote:
> > I was reading a page under netbsd.org/ports/macppc/ recently which
> > explicity
> > described how to create a bootable CD for macppc.  I'm familiar with
> > the bits
> > of this process described in the NetBSD Guide and the NetBSD/macppc
> > 1.5.3
> > Install Notes, however, unless I'm hallucinating this was a dedicated
> > FAQ/How-to on this issue.  Tonight I can't find that page anywhere.  Is
> > anyone able to provide me the URL?
>
> I'm not sure if this is, what you are looking for:
> 	http://www.dk.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#macppcimage
>
> Note the part about 'some special magic' (src/distrib/cdrom). Anybody
> comment on this?
>
> If you don't do this, you can still boot the ofwboot.xcf off your 1.5.2
> CD and then swap CDs before you load the kernel off you 1.5.3 CD.

Thank you.  That's exactly the page I was remembering.  And thanks for the tip 
on swapping CDs.

-Rich