Hi,

The Wasabi Systems cds (www.wasabisystems.com) are bootable on x86 PC,
Alpha, DECstation, SPARC, Power Macintosh, and VAX platforms.   I
remember having to type some open firmware command to get them to
boot.

To make them bootable with the 'c' key I *think* that you have to have
something resembling a MacOS file system with a system folder on them,
though maybe not on newer systems than can boot the OSX CDs.

I think that you put a system folder, and a System and Finder file in
said System Folder and it works.  The Linux folks have this working
but I remember going around in circles to get the right macos types on
files so that yaboot would in fact load and boot.

cheers

bruce

Donald Lee writes:
 > >Emiel Kollof wrote:
 > >>[snip]
 > >> Oh.. can't most macs boot from CD-ROM, btw? Maybe we should look in
 > >> getting the NetBSD install cd bootable by holding 'c' during the boing?
 > >
 > >
 > >All of the iMacs, G3s (blue and white) and G4s can boot to CD and do not 
 > >have built in floppy drives.  Ironically, the most feasible method of 
 > >using a floppy with these is via USB floppy drive.
 > >
 > >Blair Stilwell
 > 
 > Hold that thought!
 > 
 > Would it be cool, or what, if we could boot from CD with the 'c' key??
 > 
 > Do we know enough about how Apple does this to build a bootable CD?
 > (NetBSD, or course)
 > 
 > Along those lines, (and I know this has been discussed ad nauseum) it
 > should be pretty easy to port the 68K install tools to PPC.  Is there any
 > good reason these tools could not be used to install NetBSD installations?
 > I know the booter would not work, but the install tools should be pretty
 > close to a clean port.
 > 
 > As it is now, it is *required* to boot a kernel to do an install, and it
 > would be nice to do be able to do the install from MacOS in some cases.
 > 
 > ??
 > 
 > -dgl-
 > 
 > 

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