port-macppc: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?

Subject: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?
To: Cliff Crawford <cjc26@cornell.edu>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/18/2001 21:39:26

At 10:49 PM -0500 2/18/01, Cliff Crawford wrote:

:)For OFW3, you're supposed to use ofwboot.elf, not ofwboot.xcf...I don't know
:)if the xcoff version will work or not, but the elf version definitely will
:)boot.

Actually, the xcoff version works on all machines -- the preference for the
elf bootloader is that it's easier to compile, and thus there are more
versions of it floating around.

:)<http://www.ki.nu/software/NetBSD/iBook2/> has lots of tips for
:)installing on new world machines, including the cube.

[sigh].  Guess I have to re-overhaul the INSTALL notes for 1.5.1.

  -- MW