I don't know about the beige G3, but I was able to do a successfull install
of 2.0.2 on my 7300/200 using the floppies.  It went really smooth and easy
once I replaced my ethernet interface mc0 with vr0.

I can sympathize with you on the documentation; I found it somewhat lacking
myself.   I didn't find that it was misleading as much as I found that it
appeared incomplete.   Some portions of the documentation require the user
to do a lot of extrapolation and/or additional research from third sources.
However, it is important to remember that it is volunteers that create this
stuff for us, and we should be thankful that we even have anything.


Regards,

William
> First of all,
> 
> hello list =)
> 
> 
> I wanted to kindly ask, if someone was able to boot NetBSD Install of a
> floppy or cdrom (not netboot) on the machine described in the subject
> line.  I have read quite a bit of the available documentation (faq and
> install) and found that it was (for this particular machine) a bit
> misleading - I fiddled around for hours to get the partition zero
> bootloader to work, no success - then I tried it ofw3-style (I believe,
> as I do two stage boot and let the openfirmware find and boot
> ofwboot.xcf from the filesystem on the install cd) with a bit of success:
> 
> pretty handy in my mind:
> dir ide1/disk@0:0
> dir ide1/disk@0:0,\some\dir\you\want\a\listing\of
> printenv
> devalias
> 
> what i do:
> setenv boot-device ide1/disk@0:0,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1
> setenv boot-file NETBSD.MACPPC;1
> reset-all
> 
> 0 bootr
> 
> what it does:
> please take a look at my supplied "screenshots"
> basically it loads >>NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
> then says >>no active package
> +repeats >>Warning, unexpected short transfer 0/10240
> 
> what i want it to do:
> well, boot the NetBSD install cd
> 
> 
> thx for any insightful comment on this,
> Christian
>