On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:23:21PM -0400, Paul Frommeyer wrote:
> As usual when the PRAM on a Mac gets a mind of its own, consider replacing
> the motherboard battery. If your system is still running with the original
> battery, then you should definitely replace it, since for that era Mac it's
> on massively borrowed time.

ahhh, ok, will do.  thanks for the tip!!

> FWIW, when I was attempting to get a G3/333 up on NetBSD a while back, I
> ended up cutting the XCOFF boot code to a ZIP disk rather than the floppy, since
> the OFW on the G3 hated the floppy drive. While I never did get the G3 up on 
> NetBSD due to intractable OFW bugs, I had to go the ZIP disk route with one of
> our production servers at my work (G4/AGP), and the process worked great.
> For our other G4/AGP servers, I was able to hit both the XCOFF and the
> install kernel directly on the CD-ROM. IIRC, I just threw the OFWBOOT.XCF
> onto an HFS filesystem on the ZIP, and to my suprise 

ahh, ok, so, now, i need to find someone with a zip drive.  hrm.  ;)

> | I hate floppies.
> Hear, hear! :-)

they suck.  they have always sucked.  time to get my butt in gear and netboot
this thing since that is the proper way to boot a computer. :)

-brian
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