--- Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com> wrote:
 
> show-children is notoriously erratic. I have
> actually managed to get it
> to work a total of _one_ time in OF 1.0.5, but it
> will work on later
> versions. If you're installing onto the stock hard
> drive, usually it is
> at @0, and the cd drive is almost always at @3.

yeah when I've specyfied id 3 previously my cdrom
started to spin and machine just hang so I would
assume that @3 is the right option

> In your boot command for booting from the cd, you
> wrote:
> 
> 0> boot scsi-int/sd@3:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1
> NETBSD.MACPPC;1
> 
> but don't say what happened. Also, I'm not familiar
> with the use of
> semicolons after the names of the files. Have you
> tried it without them?
> 

I know for sure that boot option above didn't worked I
can't remember error message I haven't tried without
semicolons though.. might have a go today will let u
know

> > can anybody please write a note on NetBSD/macppc
> Model
> > Support page that 9500/200 might have
> > /bandit@F4000000/ATY,mach64@E instead of
> > /bandit@F4000000/ATY,mach64@D , well the one that
> I
> > found in north london- wood green just ouside
> > somebody's house has, and if not my fried who
> insisted
> > to take it nothing that would happend...
> > spent way too much time on it today...
> 
> I wonder if this has something to do with another
> PCI card being
> present, or the video card being in a different slot
> than stock.
> 
> tim
yeah that could be it I was wordering through that
display registry program you gave me yesterday and I
saw that there are 3 id's it's d, e, f, so it is
really just the matter what slot card is located in...
> 
thanx for your help through out this everyone, just
copied boot files to floppy disks with rawrite will be
installing netbsd today!.. hopefully...
I'm sure I'll be back (;


		
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