To boot a 5000/200, you need a CD-ROM drive that can be set to 512 byte
blocks instead of 2048 byte blocks.  Some CD-ROM vendors call this 'unix
capable' and make it a jumper option.  

-Dan

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Stanley Reynolds wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stanley Reynolds" <stanley_reynolds@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: muc.lists.netbsd.port.pmax
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:19 AM
> Subject: cdrom booting ?
> 
> 
> > I'am the proud owner of a 5000/25 and 5000/2000. In reading the
> installation
> > instructions it
> > appears that my cdrom is not bootable and "boot 3/rz5/netbsd" does get an
> > error. I do have a cd
> > burner on my windows me system that I used to make the 1.5.2 pmax cd from
> > iso image. Is it
> > possible to boot a cd ? Where can I get a image ? I've read the
> instructions
> > about using a helper
> > system to write the boot image on a disk or netbooting but this appears
> like
> > booting 4k basic from
> > paper tape on my S-100 system.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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