I take it that "toast" can make iso iamges?  If so, and once someone
figures out how to make a macppc bootable CD with it, please let me know
and I'll try and work it into the bootcd how-to.

-Dan

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mohan Khurana wrote:

> John,
> 
> I am having the exact same problem, I have tried to burn two CDs thus far,
> one was an ISO9660 file system, which really didn't work at all, the other
> was a Mac native filesystem, which gave me the same Unrecognized client
> format.  I posted a message on Sunday, and expected someone to reply
> quickly as a lot of people here seem to have gotten the kernel loaded and
> are actually using it.  Unfortunately I got no reponse.  I'm in the same
> exact situation, with only Toast to burn the CDs.
> 
> Toast does have an option to make a Hybrid Mac/ISO CD-ROM.  It wants a mac
> volume as input however, and I'm not sure what to give it for that.
> 
> Without a floppy in this system, I'm not sure what to do now...
> 
> mohan
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Klos wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After partially successfully making an ISO CD, I can now boot to the same
> > point as Laurent de Segur:
> > 
> > md0: internal 1600K image area
> > boot device: <unknown>
> > root on md0a dumps on md0b
> > 
> > The answer from Bill was:
> > > I think the problem is that the system has decided to use a memory file
> > > system (ram disk) for the root devvice in a kernel which doesn't have
> > > one. :-(
> > 
> > Now... If I use the kernel in
> > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/macppc/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz,
> > how do I specify a root disk? And what root disk do I specify? I can't
> > seem to find any ramdisk images.
> > 
> > I shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel. Why not make the files in boot.fs
> > available to those of us without a floppy?
> > 
> > Also, does anyone know what ISO options to use (in Toast) when creating
> > the cd? The most recent CD I made gives me:
> > 0> boot cd:,ofwboot.elf load-size=800 adler32=25f1d5dd
> > Unrecognized Client Format
> > 
> > But when I use ofwboot.elf from the 1.5 cd made from the ISO image from
> > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/isofs.20000620-1.5, I get the
> > netbsd not found error, then I put in the ISO cd I made by downloading
> > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/macppc/binary/ stuff, I
> > boot the kernel, then I get the error above.
> > 
> > Any clue?
> > 
> > BTW - my NetBSD Amiga is colocated, so even if I had a CD burner in it,
> > I'd have to travel for a few hours to be able to use mkhybrid. So Im'm
> > stuck with Toast.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John Klos
> > 
> > 
> > 
>