> >     - how to boot from the floppy
>
>?
>What floppy? :)


I'd _love_ to know how to create a boot floppy to start up my system.  I've 
been trying with no success whatsoever to force the HD to boot from 
openfirmware and netbooting isn't a very viable option....

Oh, BTW it's one of those wonderful G3's everybody raves^H^H^Hnts about.... 
It's a work machine so I can't tinker around with it _too_ much...

Regards,

Simon.


>Seriously, there is a way to do this, but I don't think we should offer it
>to users as a favoured booting method any more.  The current instructions
>suggest booting from a suntar or dd-made floppy, but new machines don't
>even have floppies--it might be good to avoid confusion by not focusing on
>floppies at all.  There is a way to boot off an HFS volume, isn't there?
>
>One thing I'd like to see is a list of Macintosh models and what their
>OpenFirmware is/isn't capable of doing.  Some have framebuffer support,
>some are serial only.  Some can boot off [XXX media, XXX partition table,
>XXX filesystem], others can't. Some can boot ELF, some require COFF.