I Think that it may be something to do with the driver on the mac side. When I confirmed the boot, the system looked like it was shuting down (the zip findit program that catalogs came up, as it does at shut down). If this is the case, then it is just spitting out the zip disk in preparation for shutdown. This is just a guess though. The disk gets spat out again during the actual boot (it even continues boot without the disk in for a while), then complains about hte geometry, then shortly dumps me into the debugger. Is there any commands I can run here to determine what is wrong? I had a look at it, but I don't know anything about unix programming to understand it. It looks like the zip can't be used a boot drive unfortunately.

Paul
> > 
> > Hi,
> >   I've just tried to boot netbsd 1.2 on a mac IIsi with 9M ram, located on
> > a zip disk. I've installed 1.1 on a 40M hard disk before, and it booted
> > nicely. I looked at the HOWTO on zip disks, and was able to set it up with
> > out problems, installing the filesystem, then the binaries. Using booter
> > 1.9.4, it started the boot also without problems, but after it asked if I
> > wanted to proceed, it spits out the zip disk. I put it back in quickly, and
> > the system started up OK until it got to the sd1a, I think. It would not
> > recognise the zip disk as a valid drive (ficticious geometry). I'm still a
> > learner, how do you trap the output of the boot to file?. Thanks for any
> > help.
> 
> Don't worry too much about the ficticious geometry complaint. My zip
> always seems to work fine (though I don't boot from it). Did the boot
> hang at one point?
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
>