On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:20:03AM -0400, Jim Ferr wrote:
> Yes, this is yet another post from someone having difficulty with the 
> installation process. In this case, however, I have the boot floppy and 
> the ISO CD and the installation proceeds without error. The following two 
> paragraphs are from the install document:
> 
> >- After all the files have been unpacked, go back to the main menu and 
> >select reboot, after you have removed the bootfloppy from the drive. 
> >
> >- NetBSD will now boot.
> 
> I'm hung up on the phrase "NetBSD will now boot". Sorry, but is doesn't 
> boot. I get the hard drive with question mark icon on the screen. 
> Needless to say this is rather annoying after getting this far. I posted 
> two similar requests for help to this list in the past couple of weeks 
> but so far no one has replied. Anyone?

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#boot-disk

This really, really, really needs to be changed in INSTALL.

We'll stop seeing the FAQ if our documentation resembles correctness.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net