Re: Difficulties installing 3.0 on Macintosh "Wallstreet" PowerBook

[Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>]

At 11:09 PM -0500 1/1/02, John Todd wrote:
>Summary: Problems with three different methods of installing OpenBSD 
>3.0 onto a Macintosh PPC "Wallstreet" Powerbook.

Problem #1: unsupported hardware. See 
<http://www.openbsd.com/macppc.html>. PB G3 FireWire (Pismo) is 
supported, but previous PB G3 models aren't mentioned.

>
>1) CDROM - I started out just trying to boot the CD-ROM via the Open 
>Firmware, per the instructions.  Frustratingly, the WallStreet 
>doesn't seem to have an OpenFirmware alias or device that is mapped 
>to the CD-ROM drive.  I tried the obvious "boot cd:,ofwboot ..."

Problem #2: try "boot cd:,OFWBOOT ..." See 
<http://www.openbsd.com/errata.html>.

>and it fails with a "can't OPEN:" error.
<snip>

FWIW, mine doesn't. Instead, it flashes garbage on the the screen for 
a fraction of a second & then boots Mac OS 9 from the HD.

>This is getting silly; does anyone have prior experience with the 
>Wallstreet Powerbooks that can give some idea of how to get this 
>thing working?

Unfortunately, all of my experience with these is under Mac OS 8, & 
9. I can only offer the educated guess that one of the things you 
tried before *might* work if you replace "ofwboot" with "OFWBOOT" & 
remind you that your PowerBook is not specifically supported.

HTH, good luck, & let us know if it works,
-Kit
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