Hello Justin,

On the last weekend i made download of ISO's " 3.0 and 3.0.1 " to know
whether my Media Cd-rom could be wrong, but i was deceive. After i
burn my new Medias, i tried to test in many ways, but always got the
same errors.

I confess that i was a little frustated with NetBSD documentation and
bugs about boot firmware / cdrom and of floppy disks that didn't work,
 i didn't pretend losting much time installing NetBSD on my box, i got
to think that using a Mac OS X 10.3 Tiger is more easy.

I'm going to try the another possibility burning the ofwboot.xcf and
netbsd.macppc on the cdrom, when i try this i tell you about the
results. Thanks a lot.

regards,

Marcos



On 11/5/06, Justin Davis <jrcd83@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marcos,
>
> I have installed NetBSD on my Power Macintosh 9600/300 a few months
> ago.  I was never able to get the NetBSD install CD to boot properly.
> When I did 'boot scsi-int/sd@3:0 NETBSD.MACPPC' as prescribed it would
> just hang the system.  Apparently my open firmware does not like the
> install CD, it can't dir anything on the CD either.
>
> However, if I burn OFWBOOT.XCF and a netbsd kernel to a plain-old
> regular ISO CD, open firmware can dir the cd drive and boot the
> OFWBOOT.XCF and NETBSD.MAC files!  But I was lazy and just boot off
> the floppy disks because I did not want to make my own custom CD.  You
> might see if a plain old ISO CD works with the dir and boot commands.
>
> Hope that helps... I spent alot of time struggling to get the install
> cd to boot but never succeeded.
>