>Ok...I appreciate it....yet i thought i was writing to the list:) how do i
>write to the list? i never got an email to write to...

That's easy.  Just address it to: port-macppc@netbsd.org

-dgl-

I include a copy of your recent mail and my reply....

At 11:45 PM -0500 7/3/03, Donald Lee wrote:
>To: "Jeff Conradi" <jeffconradi@comcast.net>
>From: Donald Lee <MacPPC@caution.icompute.com>
>Subject: Re: Macppc - booting troubles
>Cc: 
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>>Ok...I have read all of the ppc installation instructions...all of them are
>>printed out...I am trying.  Since you have installed this before maybe you
>>could see if my procedure is right.
>>
>>1)Format the whole drive as unallocated
>>2)boot from netbsd cd from openfirmware
>>3)install netbsd
>>4)try and boot
>>
>>It's booting netbsd that i have my problems...I don't know if theres
>>something is should be looking for that would tell me what to boot off
>>of....the only thing that looks like it may be something is wd0....it writed
>>to wd0....
>
>I'm afraid that I can't help.
>
>It sounds like you got the hard part done.
>
>The installer will format and partition the drive in a "reasonable" way,
>and should allow a boot if the install succeeds. (I presume it did).
>All the prep is done by the installer program, which you managed to
>run.
>
>You're almost there.
>
>The trick, once you're to that point, is to set up the Open Firmware so that
>you can boot from the internal drive on the Bronze PB.  This is a matter of
>setting the "magic" string for booting, usually in the "boot-device" and/or
>"boot-file" Open Firmware variables.  Picking that string is really a bit
>of black magic.  Normally,though, if you can boot the CD, you can boot the
>HD.
>
>I have seen conversations go by about this, but I can't help.  Write to
>the list.
>
>-dgl-