Also - beware of Open Firmware version number.  Most Beige G3s are
OF 2.0.1, but some are OF 2.4.  These behave differently, and
need slightly different setups to boot.

-dgl-

>YOu guys should be a little more specific with your problems ! the
>documentation in the macppc section of the netbsd site for powermacs is
>quite extensive and it goes into details of booting and setting
>openfirmware on 1, 2 avd v3 versions of it. granted it may become tricky
>but you really should try harder, check past posts here on the list and
>report your real errors, your configurations., your attemps so we can
>try to diagnose what is going wrong..
> Just raising hands and ssying  "it doesn't work for me" is useless.
>Really. Other people have booted beige G3s...
>
>-R
>
>gerard wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm a newbie too, and after many tray I have chose others ways...
>> 1/ opendarwin (nice but not enough port for what I'm looking for
>> 2/ debian (really a very nice works... i know it's no BSD, but that
>> can boot...)
>> 3/ ubunt : my actual chose with a booting OS9 partition... (I't
>> not really my chose, but i can't be able to boot on NetBSD ;-((()
>> 
>> but if some one have any idea, it's well come to really make a tray to
>> NetBSD
>> 
>> Gerard
>> 
>> > I am attempting to install netbsd on a beige g3.  I have looked at
>> > the
>> > archives and have been unable to find a boot command in the open
>> > firmware that boots my netbsd install cd.  Does anyone have
>> > experience
>> > installing on the beige g3?  My machine has a ide cd-rom and ide
>> > hard
>> > drive.  I am new to bsd but have some experience with linux.  Any
>> > help
>> > would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Michael
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Lazin
>> > http://lazinweb.homelinux.net
>> > Power Mac G4 1.2ghz 1 gig RAM MacOS Server 10.3
>> > Power Book G4 1.33ghz 512 megs RAM MacOS 10.3
>> > PalmOne Treo 650 312mhz 23 megs Memory PalmOS 5.4
>> >