There've been some problems with the 1.6 iso for macppc, make sure to 
download the one called 'bootable'.
/Daniel

On tirsdag, jan 21, 2003, at 21:46 Europe/Copenhagen, Henry B. Hotz 
wrote:

> At 9:13 PM -0500 1/20/03, daniell@trillian.beachbash.net wrote:
>> Because my internal scsi drive is chock full of bad blocks I don't 
>> want to
>> and possibly can't make it my boot device; I'm supposing that I might 
>> make
>> an ISO9660 disk with the generic kernel on it and pass it the root 
>> path.
>> The netbsd boot floppy worked for running the installer (mostly) but I
>> can't seem to actually boot off the official netbsd "iso" either.
>
> Bit off thread, but I can't boot off the official 1.6 "iso" either on 
> a 7500.
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