On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:52:01AM -0500, rian wrote:
>> Michael Wolfson wrote:
>>> I'd be more inclined to rip everything out of the INSTALL notes 
>>> except
>>> booting from the official CD-R.  Burners are very common and almost 
>>> all
>>> supported models have built-in CD-ROM drives.  Either that, or expand
>>> the "quick guide for the impatient" and only describe OF 3 machines 
>>> in
>>> that section.
>>
>> eh, bad idea. When I installed NetBSD on my 6500 (OF 2.0.4) , OF
>> couldn't boot from the CD, so I had to bootstrap from floppy then
>> install from the CD.
>
> Could your 6500 boot from a macos cd?

My 7300 couldn't boot from the netbsd-2.0 iso, but it was able to boot 
from any macos cd as well as the netbsd-1.6.2 iso.  Floppies worked 
fine, though.

chaz