To get into open firm ware you simply need to press CMD-Option-O-F when
you hear the chime at start up. Or find a program like BootVars that
will let you tell the computer to stop at the openfirmware prompt. Then
you will see what version you have and you can go form there. I think
these machines are OFW version 3. You won't be able to load it by
pressing 'C' because that is a command given to the apple rom to load
from a CD. After the computer starts to load the apple rom, NetBSD won't
work.

Hope this helps

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: port-macppc-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-macppc-owner@NetBSD.org]
On Behalf Of James Buchanan
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:09 PM
To: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
Subject: ***SPAM*** Installing on an iBook

Hi,

I have an Apple iBook, which has an ATI Radeon Mobility video card.  I'm

not sure if that helps identify what model it is.  (Is there some way to

tell?)  I don't know how to get into the OF prompt with it.

I find the instructions for installing NetBSD confusing.  Do I need to=20
run the MacOS X install CD to partition the disk?  I only want NetBSD=20
installed on it.

I tried to load NetBSD when I had Linux installed, but the CD wouldn't=20
boot from the first stage bootloader when holding down the "c" key.=20
When I got to the yaboot prompt, it complained that ofwboot.xcf wasn't a

valid ELF kernel image.

It seems I have to keep an Apple bootstrap partition which is always=20
~36K, then some other Apple partition (would this be the HFS partition=20
the install guides talk about?), then a partition named NetBSD or=20
something.  (Is that the "name" field or the "type" field?)

I'm trying to install from a NetBSD 2.0.2 CD.

Thanks for any help.
James