on 11/22/99 11:04 AM, Arvid Bj=F6rkstr=F6m at arvid.bjorkstrom@swipnet.se wrote=
:

> I'm sitting here trying to install NetBSD on my G3 desktop. The problem
> is that it refuses to boot on the floppy disk I've creaded. I've tried
> with four different floppys and one made by another NetBSD system and
> nothing seems to work. When I boot it reads from it for 1 second and then
> just spits it out. What am I doing wrong?

are you using OF to boot from the floppy?

(turn the machine on, hold down cmd-option-o-f, then when you get a prompt,
type 'boot FD:0')

James.