on a related note,  I have a carcass of an 8500 sans hard drive and
was wondering how you set up OF to netboot in a completely diskless
environment 

-j


Wesley Horner writes:
 > > 
 > > PS: If somebody can think of another way to boot NetBSD on the iMac
 > > (except soldering a floppy connector onto the mainboard), I'd also like
 > > to hear it...
 > 
 > The imac will boot kernels off of cd roms and off of the hard drive.  The
 > problem is getting other OF settings.  It will always find the kernel.
 > Just drop the kernel in the root of the hard drive under mac os and tell
 > it that the boot device is hd:kernelname to boot from the hard drive or
 > cd:kernelname for a cd rom. 
 > 
 > wes
 > 
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