Hi,

Once upon a time I installed NetBSD on a PowerBook 3400c.  I never could get
the PowerBook to boot from the CD, so I installed the floppy drive in the
expansion bay, and booted from floppy.  You'll have to access the install
archives in another way.  I used an external CD ROM drive.

Eric Berna


On 3/3/06 8:04 AM, "Hasan Kacmaz" <hkacmaz@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> G'day
> 
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 3 on my trusty old Powerbook 3400c and
> during the initial
> process I come across few problems that I'm hoping someone be able to
> help me with:
> (better if anyone who already done this can send me some tips :-)
> 
> I can access my Open Firmware prompt with no problem (which is version
> 2.0.1)
> However, I'm not certain if :
>     -    the installation instructions say *I can* or *can't* boot
> directly from NetBSD ppc 3.0 cd
> 
> and if I can boot directly from the NetBSD cd,
>     -    is it then possible to use the entire hdd without installing
> any MacOS partitions?
> 
> So far, I am unable to boot from the CD, but I can't tell if its due to
> these instructions listed at
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/#The Boot device
> entry 
> <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/#The%20Boot%20device%2
> 0entry>
> 
> Basically, if I can boot with NetBSD cd, then I can use the pdisk to
> partition the hdd.
> 
> 
> Also, the suggested partition structure is as shown below.
>         HFS or HFS+   over 100 KB
>         A/UX Root       at least 20 MB - not readable from MacOS.
>         A/UX Swap      RAM size
>         A/UX User       at least 200 MB
>         A/UX Free1     at least 200 MB
>         HFS                 any size
>         UFS                 any size
> 
> There are 3 partitions with HFS/UFS... are they necessary? I suppose
> this could answer my first
> question if I need to install MacOS partition!!! if so, where does the
> Mac OS go?
> 
> cheers