It should also be possible to boot from the CD-ROM provided OFWBOOT.XCO and
the right netbsd files are on it.  I had a 50% success rate trying that on
desktop x500 PCI PowerMacs.

At 1:33 PM -0700 9/19/99, J. David Blackstone wrote:
>Hugh Caley wrote:
>> I never got a response to my original post.  I have a Lombard laptop, and no
>> floppy.  Is there any way to install NetBSD on it?  I checked out the
>>FAQ and
>> the installation docs, which seem to indicate you must have floppy
>>and/or nfs
>> access to install it.  I have neither.  Any hope?
>
>  I'm in a similar floppy-less situation with one of the Blue and
>White G3's.  I was able to boot NetBSD by saving the kernel
>(netbsd-GENERIC_MD) in the root directory of my hard drive, booting
>into OpenFirmware, and then issuing the command: boot
>hd:5,netbsd-GENERIC_MD.  If you can do this, and get the *.tgz sets
>onto a CD-R, I think you can probably get everything to work.  Good luck!


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