Subject: Re: Installer Problems.
To: Matthieu Lalonde <mlalonde@ravesw.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/01/2002 12:43:28
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Matthieu Lalonde wrote:

> I got into the installer of NetBSD via the OpenFirmware using a boot
> floppy... that's all good
> It erased my drive everything is fine but then it asks me for the
> device I wasn tto use and the directory
> i'm using a CD
> SCSI ID 2
> the directry to the .gz files is
> /macppc/binary/kernel/
> so i set the device at scsi-int/sd@2
> and the directory at /macppc/binery/kernel/
> but it doesn't work...

Open firmware and NetBSD label devices differently. NetBSD labels CD
drives (both SCSI and ATAPI) "cd", and starts numbering from cd0. If you
have only one CD, you want "cd0".

Take care,

Bill