I just got a PowerBook 2400 and I want to install NetBSD 1.6. I don't 
have the floppy drive yet. It is coming in about a week. I want to 
install NetBSD as soon as possible.

I have an old 4x CD-R drive in an external scsi case that I have been 
trying to boot from. I can't seem to get it to work. I have the 
NetBSD/macppc CD-R in the drive and I issue the following commands and 
get the following errors.

I entered:

boot scsi/sd@3:0 NETBSD.MACPPC

and I got:

DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700 at  %SRR0: 00004000  %SRR1: 00083070

I wondered what was going on so I tried this:

dev scsi
ls

And I got:

FF8354B8: /sd@0,0
FF8360A0: /st@0,0

This would seem to indicate that the CD-R drive is not being recognized 
by Open Firmware since it is at scsi ID 3. Is that correct?

Does this mean that I either need to wait for the floppy or find 
another CD drive?

Thanks for your help.

Bryan