On Feb 6, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:

> I am being totally stumped.  I have found a whole bunch of different 
> documents
> which refer to versions at least as far back as 1.6.1, and I have not 
> been
> able to form a cohesive view of things.

Huh?  None of the NetBSD-related documents released prior to Jan 2005 
mention the Mini.  What's the confusing part that's within the scope of 
documentation that can be fixed?

> The Mini has a fairly recent version of Open Firmware.  My 
> understanding
> is that I should be able to access an Apple UFS filesytem from Open 
> Firmware.

Nope.  OpenFirmware doesn't support UFS, only netboot, MS-DOS, 
ISO9660,, and "sector zero" bootloaders.  Open Firmware 3 systems also 
support HFS/HFS+, but the "sector zero" bootloader doesn't seem to work 
with the technique we use to create it on pre-OF3 systems.

> I can probably do it with HFS+... But if I do that, then I have no 
> obvious
> way to copy new kernels in.  ?

Make an HFS (non-plus) partition and use pkgsrc/sysutils/hfstools, or 
muck around with ISO9660 or MS-DOS file systems.  No one who 
understands the boot process has found enough time to get a better 
bootloading system working.

   -- MW