thanks i got it booted but now it isn't liking the partitioning but that
is ok thank you all for your help :)

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>
> > i keep trying to get that file on the page it says it is 92 k when i
> > download it it says it is 90 and doesn't execute.....i have no clue why
> > this is maybe my connection is lossy
>
> 92325/1024 = 90.16, i.e. 90K. The reason the ".sea" archive doesn't
> execute, is because it's a Mac PowerPC binary. You should still be
> able to use "Stuffit Expander (TM)" on it. To be a mac68k executable
> binary, it would have to have a resource fork, so it would require
> additional encoding, anyhow.
>
> "BSD_Mac68k_Booter.bin" on the other hand, is not an archive, but
> rather just the binary in MacBinary format. Most Mac OS ftp clients
> (such as Netscape Navigator, Anarchie) will convert that automatically
> into an executable binary, but you could use "Stuffit Expander" on it,
> too. With the manual, "BooterManual.stxt.bin", you have all the
> contents of Nigel Pearson's original archive (without need of any
> particular third party software to get at it).
>
> I also put up uuencoded versions of the same two files. Eventually,
> I suppose the uuencoded versions will be committed to the NetBSD
> sources, to be used to automatically generate the installation/misc
> directory (which will contain the MacBinary files).
>
> > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> >
> > > You have booter 1.x. You need booter 2.x which is available from:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/installation/misc/
> > >
> > > The file you need is either BSD_Mac68k_Booter.bin or Booter2.0.0.sea.
> > > Booter2.0.0.sea contains the manual along with the booter which
> > > BSD_Mac68k_Booter.bin just has the booter.
> > >
> > > The error comes from the fact that kernels are now in ELF format while
> > > they were in a.out format before. Only the new 2.x booter supports the
> > > ELF format. Hope that helps.
> > >
> > > Bryan
> > >
> > > On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:21 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> > >
> > > > i have a macintosh lc III here it was runing a broken 1.5.3 install so
> > > > i
> > > > decided to reinstall with 1.6.  WHen i try to use the kernel booter to
> > > > boot the intaller kernel it says boot error: this kernel is not in a
> > > > format which the booter can execute.  anyone else had this error?
>
> Frederick
>
>