Installing on a white iBook

[Catonano <catonano%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello people,

I'm trying to install netBSD on a white iBook (I think it's a g3, but I'm not sure), I managed to let the Open Firmware boot the installation cd and to prepare the partitions layout (a HFS partition for the bootloader with a MacOs installation on it so I can copy files at least; then the swap and the root partition).

I want to signal a problem and ask a question:

The problem: in the installation screenshots, I see the installer asking for the keyboard layout. In my case it just jumps that screen and goes to the following one, and in the shell the command to set the layout (I can't remember its name now) is absent (command not found) with the result that the keyboard layout is wrong and typing regular expressions is a nightmare. Is this a known issue ? Or isn't it ?

Also, the installation notes suggest to use something like "dmesg | grep ..." in order to discover how is the disk called but the installation disk has no grep on it (command not found). I'll try to scan the dmesg output myself.

The question: can anyone suggest me an alternative way to figure out what's the disk called ? So that I can fix the partition types with pdisk and create the filesystems ?

And since we're at it, can anyone also suggest me a way to figure out the partition numers in Open Firmware so that I can fix the instructions for the booting from the disk, when the installation will be ready ?

Thanks

Cato