Subject: Re: DMESG & Device for Dist Sets on CD-ROM
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: James Bilotto <jb13@gomerbud.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/02/2004 04:26:12
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:05:39AM -0600, Ralph Counts wrote:
> I can boot from the floppy. The sysinst program goes well. At least until it
> asks for the location of the distribution sets. I have them on a CD-RW that
> is in the only CD-ROM on the system. The CD-ROM is a SCSI model on the first
> SCSI bus at scsi-int\sd@3: and why does the install program tell me that it
> cannot find the sets? Then it asks me if I would like to try again, quit, or
> continue anyway. It never finds the files. 

are you sure? i know i have made the mistake of burning the cd like
	/bla/bla/
when sysint defaults to
	/macppc/bla/bla/

> The dmesg command does list all the hardware in the machine. The locations
> are just as I expected them to be laid out. How can I use Open Firmware 1.0.5
> to find out just what devices can it read? Specifically what are the command
> syntax and variable names to be used for such a query? 

its been 6 mounths since i have touched my mac's, but on a sparc you would use
'probe-scsi' or 'probe-scsi-all'

jb13
> 
> Thank You in Advance,
> Ralph in Boise