Hi, i'm trying to boot netbsd 3.0 from a CD created on a FreeBSD 6.0 
machine using cdrecord from the file macppccd-3.0.iso that i obtained from 
the netbsd ftp site.

i'm installing on a power macintosh 7300/200 running open firmware 1.0.5. 
I have also tried installing from floppies, but kept getting READ TIMEOUT 
errors even when i had used suntar to create the floppies on the machine 
on which i am trying to install.

from following instructions on the install page, i have managed to boot 
into open firmware, and ascertained that scsi-int/sd@3:0 should be 
bootable (using the 'words' command), but when i type:

boot scsi-int/sd@3:0 NETBSD.MACPPC

it says that it cannot open it. also, if i do:

dev scsi-int/sd@3 ok
dir

i get the error "can't open DIR device".

any suggestions?

sincerely,

Iain Dooley