Subject: Re: Unattended booting
To: Donald Lee <donlee_ppc1@icompute.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/13/2002 11:49:29
At 9:59 AM -0500 9/12/02, Donald Lee wrote:
>I'm wanting to upgrade my production server to something a little faster,
>and I'm looking at the "new world" macs.  (B&W, G4)
>
>Currently, my server is an OF 1.x machine, which I can reboot with one
>button press.  Can the OF 3.x machines be
>made so they boot NetBSD unattended?  I suppose leaving a CD in the
>drive would count....
>
>I'd like my root on the internal (faster) drive, of course.

Shouldn't be a big deal.  Once you know how to boot into netbsd you 
just can the settings into the environment variables.

OF 3 used by the new machines doesn't have the space limitations that 
OF 1 machines have.  Also they can (need to?) boot off of a MacOS 
partition so install accordingly.
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