installing YDL vs NetBSD

[admin@datazap.net]

Hi,

The computer that I am trying to install it on is a G3 Blue & White. From
what I have read it is a new world machine. I was able to find some docs
on the how to find the correct path to the CD, but this didn't help me.
However, I was able to find this infomation with the instruction from the
NetBSD site, but I can't find any docs on what to do with this info now
that I have it. How do I tell yaboot where to find its config file? It
looks like this could be done from the boot prompt. I just can't find any
docs that tell me how.

Thanks,
Al


On 1 Jan 2004, K. Olaf Olson wrote:
> Al,
>
> I must have missed the earlier posting, where you told us all what Mac
> on which you were trying to install YDL. It DOES make a difference, as
> to whether you can actually boot from the CD. If you have an Old World
> Mac, ie anything older than the blue G3 (and some of those, too, I
> believe), you can't boot from the CD. Apple won't let you do this. The
> procedures outlined for Old World Macs describe the procedure you MUST
> use.
>
> Of course, if I missed your posting and you DO have a New World Mac,
> there's another problem.
>
> Olaf
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:27, admin@datazap.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After playing with yaboot, and reading through the archive for this
> > mailling. Then doing some searching with google. I was unable to find a
> > solution to it not booting from the installation cd. Feeling like there
> > has to be an easier way. I found my NetBSD install disk for port-macppc. I
> > was then able to very quickly look at the install guide, and with a little
> > bit of playing with the open-firmware (it is alot like the boot prompt on
> > a Sun), I was looking at the NetBSD installer (Which is not graphical but
> > gets the job done just the same, and works about the same on all
> > platform).
> >
> > In the process of doing this I was able to find what the open firmware
> > calls it cd drive, but I am still not able to over come the problem. If I
> > hold down the 'C' key during boot, the system returns an error saying that
> > it can't open yaboot.conf. It is looking for yaboot.conf at:
> > /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@5/ata-3@20000/disk@0:2,yaboot.conf
> >
> > But if I tell yaboot:
> > /pci/@d/mac-io/ata-3@20000/disk@0:0,boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2fBOOT
> > it then starts the boot process. Of course it has a kernel panic as soon
> > as it tries to find it root file system. In NetBSD it would then ask where
> > is the root file system (linux doesn't do this), but it still would not
> > fix the problem because there isn't one to find.
> >
> > I am not sure how to tell yaboot where yaboot.conf is. So, that it would
> > load a root file system into memory, and then tell the kernel where it is
> > (just remember I don't have the Mac O/S install disks).
> >
> > Also, I would like to have a dual boot system with both YDL and NetBSD on
> > it. I think that I will be able to partition the drive with NetBSD. So, I
> > can't see a reason I would need Mac O/S.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al
> >
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