Hi Joseph,

    Thanks for your suggestions. However, I don't think I can use them because my machine doesn't have a zip bay. My beige G3 (OF 2.4) instead has a floppy drive. The floppy drive appears hopelessly broken. I can't even use the floppy drive in macos 9.1!

Humbly Yours,

Kevin

kkwoo@sdf1.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joseph Sarkes wrote:

>
> one thing to try/check is the following line that works on my G4 dual
> to boot from a hard drive I stuffed
> into the zip bay. I don't really recommend this for the unix partition
> though, as it runs using pio vice dma.
>
> boot zip:,\ofwboot.xcf zip:11,/netbsd
>
> note the following:
> 1) ofwboot.xcf is on the hfs partition that will boot macos 9.2 also.
> 2) partition 11 is MY a partition for netbsd, with type "A/UX Root",
> yours may be different.
> 3) note especially that the part of the boot line for netbsd uses a /
> vice a \... the \ will not work
> 4) some or all of the above may not apply to your version of OF, but it
> took me quite a while
> 	and a random glimpse at someone elses email re the / to get the
> booting working properly
> 	after reading the install docs repeatedly. I always managed to boot
> the original kernel from
> 	the hfs partition using the \ character and no partition number
> though. The hassle was getting
> 	my new netbsd file over to the hfs+ partition to try it out.
> 5) other things besides pdisk that might be useful is the cdrecord
> stuff packaged up so that one can
> 	rebuild the system and then make a new install cd, or perhaps working
> firewire hard drives under
> 	netbsd.
> 6) one other glitch I ran into, is with the new -current rescue
> directory, where I tried to make a "live" cd
> 	that I could use for repair work should I need it. Unfortunately, the
> incantation I used with mkisofs
> 	made a separate file for each of the hard links in that directory,
> eating up half of the cd I my memory
> 	serves correctly. Anyone know the proper direction to wave the magic
> wand to accomplish this?
>