At 5:54 PM +0200 6/21/02, you wrote:

:)>  What happens when you use the Open Firmware dir command to get a listing
:)> of the CD?
:)
:)Nothing, but that could be because I was quering the SCSI controller. It
:)turned out that the 4400 has the cdrom connected to IDE port 1.

Ah.  Which install notes were you looking at?  1.5.3 and later should
describe how to get a directory listing of devices so you can figure out
whether you're even looking in the right place.

:)- The comslot ethernet is detected but doesn' work,
:)   a RTL 8029 in a PCI slot works fine.

I don't know.

:)- I can't see any detection of an audio device.

It's not available in 1.5.2 or 1.5.3, and it's disabled by default in
-current and 1.6.  You need to compile with the audio device enabled since
it causes serious problems (when enabled) in some newer G4 systems.  It's
the awacs device, see the FAQ.

:)- X starts up, but the mouse doesn't work, and neither does
:)	ctrl-alt-backspace.

Dunno about mouse, but Xmacppc doesn't use ctrl-alt-backspace to quit.  I
don't know of a keystroke to do that with Xmacppc.

:)- The memory footprints of apps seem to be quite large, compare to i386.

RISC vs. CISC?

:)- I turned autoboot on again (to allow the machine to come up again after a
:)crash/remote reboot). However I don't have MacOS anymore (can't be on the
:)same disc on pre 3 OF). Is there a bootvariables prog for NetBSD?

No, but you can do all of that from the Open Firmware prompt, see the FAQ.

:)To give you an idea: I spent 2 full evenings to get it to work. And I
:)already tried to read in at work before.

OK, that sounds about right (unfortunately).

:)The only way to fix this IMHO is to make model (or family) specific
:)summaries per model. to create a more chronological treatise of the
:)procedure.

Yeah, this has been discussed off-and-on, but the problem is having to
maintain multiple copies of information.

Good luck,
  -- MW