Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> I think it will be easier if you create an Apple partition table, with
> the pdisk(8) utility, and not a MBR table. Instead of a small MSDOS
> partition you can create a small HFS partition (type Apple_HFS) from
> which OF will be able to load the 'ofwboot.xcf' file.
>
> (To format the HFS partition, and copy the 'ofwboot.xcf' file, you can
> either use the 'hfsutils' package (in pkgsrc as 'sysutils/hfsutils')
> or Mac OS.)
>
> That way, if you create your NetBSD partitions with the
> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition type and set the "BZB bits" as asked by the
> pdisk(8) tools there should be no need to create a disklabel manually.

Eventually I will try this, but my goal right now is to try to get a
machine to install and boot with only an install CD and nothing else.
I don't want to have to do anything special in OSX or another NetBSD
machine to try to make it boot.

I just sent out another mail to the list.

Andy