Re: Notes from installing on a G4 Mac Mini

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> > > First off, I started with the ISO image for 4.0.1.  This is because
> > > I have a vague recollection that the newer macppc ISO images are un-
> > > bootable.  I beleive/hope there is now a PR about the issue(?)
> >
> > http://gnats.netbsd.org/40938
>
> and
> http://www.NetBSD.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#makefs
>
> src/distrib/cdrom should still work with some tweaks, though.

It's not my intention to be difficult here, but I just can't keep
myself from pointing out that

1) This appears to be a rather serious regression from 4.0

2) Why isn't the above used, so that what comes out at the other end
   of a full release build contains an image which is bootable?
   Surely we don't expect each user to first figure out and then do
   the tweaks (untangling the src/distrib/cdrom stuff might be
   ... challenging) and build from scratch before ending up with a
   bootable image?  (Yes, this is a rhetorical question.)

I'll freely admit that I've peeked at the src/distrib/cdrom setup, and
have not been able to figure out on my own how that might be applied
to fix the problem.

Regards,

- Håvard