Hi,

There used to be a guide for doing a "manual" install which might help 
you. Perhaps sysinst just doesn't find the drive, although the kernel 
does. If you check the output of
	dmesg
you should be able to see what the IDE drive is called.

/Daniel


On torsdag, sep 4, 2003, at 13:51 Europe/Copenhagen, spam@dbsec.net 
wrote:

>
> Lo,
>
> As part of an experiment i was booting NetBSD 1.6.1 macppccd.iso
> on a 17" iMac 1Ghz using OpenFirmware. As it was shown 'not tested,
> but should work' on the hw list i was prepared for the worst.
>
> Using
>
> boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf
>
> it does boot it apparantly the first ide device it finds ( imho the
> ide bus ) it cant identify. After that i get into sysinst but as there
> are no disks found i can't get any further. Any1 tips on how i should
> proceed or is this something that is not yet implemented?
>
> Tnx in advance,
>
> Thijs
>
>
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>
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