>
> On 22-Sep-05, at 2:03 AM, John Klos wrote:
>
>>>> Thanks to Gilbert and all the others who have responded to my 
>>>> attempts
>>>> to install NetBSD on my iBook.  Here is the current state of 
>>>> affairs.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Downloaded macppccd.iso (145,472 KB) from one of the US mirrors.
>>>> 2) Burned it to CD.
>>>> 3) Got to the Open Firmware prompt and determined that the Open 
>>>> Firmware
>>>> is version 3.
>>>> 4) Attempted to boot the CD with a couple of the examples in the doc
>>>> with no success.
>>
>> This should have been fixed, but I suppose it hasn't. NetBSD 2.0 and 
>> 2.0.2 macppc cds are not bootable on either older (1.0.5) or newer 
>> (3) Open Firmware. I'd recommend that you partition in OS X or OS 9 
>> with an extra small HFS (not plus) partiton, put ofwboot.xcf from the 
>> extracted 2.0.2 sets (NOT from 1.6.2 - it won't work) and 
>> netbsd-INSTALL.gz from the 2.0.2 (or 2.1-RC5 or whatever) onto that 
>> HFS partition, then boot that and use that to do the install.
>
>

On 22-Sep-05, at 7:13 AM, Mauro wrote:

> I have an iMac DV with OF 3 and I'm sure I've gotten it to boot of the 
> CD, although I don't regularly do it.  I wrote something on it in
> http://ubuntuppc.info/index.php?node=67
>
>
> Maurice Andres


  boot cd;,\ofboot.xcf netbsd.macppc initially for install.
and
boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf hd:9,/netbsd post install.  I believe this 
circumvents any need to necessitate a HFS+ bootloader partition.  Of 
course you need to know the partition number on which netbsd is install 
on.  'diskutil list' in term in OS X will tell you this.

Maurice



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