Subject: Re: first naive question of the day
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew White <awhite@arc.corp.mot.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/24/2001 11:20:44
Michael Wolfson wrote:
>
> At 10:54 AM +0100 7/23/01, Michael A. Smith wrote:
>> My question is a bit simpler: What about if I don't want to dual-boot
>> at all. I'm not at all interested in MacOS and want a dedicated NetBSD
>> Cube. Does this make my installation harder or easier?
>
> Not really, unless you netboot. Cubes (and all Open Firmware 3 systems)
> require an XCOFF or ELF bootloader located on an HFS or HFS+ partition,
> and partitioning using a MacOS tool.
You can fudge this by setting up a system as for dual-boot, but just
"forget" to make room for MacOS partitions except a tiny one to put the
bootloader on. You then set the OF boot commands to boot from the HFS+
partition bootloader directly to the netbsd kernel, and you're done.
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Andrew White Andrew.E.White@motorola.com