I have an iMac DV with OF 3 and I'm sure I've gotten it to boot of the 
CD, although I don't regularly do it.  I wrote something on it in
http://ubuntuppc.info/index.php?node=67


Maurice Andres

On 22-Sep-05, at 2:03 AM, John Klos wrote:

>>> Thanks to Gilbert and all the others who have responded to my 
>>> attempts
>>> to install NetBSD on my iBook.  Here is the current state of affairs.
>>>
>>> 1) Downloaded macppccd.iso (145,472 KB) from one of the US mirrors.
>>> 2) Burned it to CD.
>>> 3) Got to the Open Firmware prompt and determined that the Open 
>>> Firmware
>>> is version 3.
>>> 4) Attempted to boot the CD with a couple of the examples in the doc
>>> with no success.
>
> This should have been fixed, but I suppose it hasn't. NetBSD 2.0 and 
> 2.0.2 macppc cds are not bootable on either older (1.0.5) or newer (3) 
> Open Firmware. I'd recommend that you partition in OS X or OS 9 with 
> an extra small HFS (not plus) partiton, put ofwboot.xcf from the 
> extracted 2.0.2 sets (NOT from 1.6.2 - it won't work) and 
> netbsd-INSTALL.gz from the 2.0.2 (or 2.1-RC5 or whatever) onto that 
> HFS partition, then boot that and use that to do the install.

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