Re: How to install OpenBSD 6.9 on iBook G4 with USB drive ?

Dear all,

Just to let you know that I eventually managed to install OpenBSD 6.9 on
my iBook G4 :)

boot usb0/disk@1:,ofwboot /6.9/macppc/bsd.rd and a fresh USB stick did the
trick.

Best regards,

Samuel

> On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:07:49 -0700
> Navan Carson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Do the .iso files work when written to a USB drive? Other architectures
>> have .img files for that.
>
> Yes, the .iso for macppc is from mkhybrid(8) -part -hfs, such that
> Open Firmware sees the .iso as an HFS (under an Apple partition map),
> but OpenBSD sees the .iso as a cd9660 filesystem.
>
> This is different from amd64 and powerpc64, where the .img is an
> msdos filesystem (under an MBR), but the .iso is a cd9660.
>
> --George
>
>