Subject: Re: Apple PowerMacintosh Beige G3, Revision 2, Open Firmware 2.4
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_G=C9R=D4ME?= <ag@roxor.be>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Sch=F6ler?= <eclipser23@web.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/01/2004 12:57:07
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Here are the instructions to boot this machine:
>> <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2>.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have no legacy MacOS. My sole MacOSX runs only on
>> a laptop with no floppy drive.
>>
>> I request a little from someone who has a MacOS version above 8.0
>> running on a floppy drive machine to create a SystemDisk needed to
>> flash my OpenFirmware.
>>
>> Instructions to do so are here:
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/>.
>>
>> To wit, the MacOS 8.1 boot floppy did not work for me. :(
>>
>> If someone would be so kind to create a floppy with these tools on
>> MacOS, dd it on a file on a Unix System, and then upload it =
somewhere,
>> it would be nice. :)
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> --=20
>> Aur=E9lien G=C9R=D4ME
>>
>> Free Software Developer
>> Unix Sys & Net Admin
>
> hi,
>
> as soon as i got my breakfast in i can do it for you ;)
>
> i sent this reply to the list too in case somebody else might be=20
> interested in the image...
>
> cheers!

hi,

i am sorry, but the only machine i do have (up and running, that is)=20
with a floppy drive besides my PowerBook is a SPARCstation 20MP -- i=20
tried, but NetBSD complains about it's floppy controller, gives a lot=20
of error messages when dd'ing... :(

regards,

timo