Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Marco Trillo <marcotrillo%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On 10/16/09, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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.)
>>
> 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.
>

Actually you can use the above method with just an install CD and
nothing else (assuming you have access to the 'hfsutils' package):
'ofwboot.xcf'  can be loaded from the CD for the first boot of the
newly installed system, and then the 'hfsutils' package can be used
for formatting the boot partition and copying the booter to it.

No Mac OS is required; the only requirement is the 'hfsutils' package itself.

Regards
Marco