Hi Ben.. Far be it from me to snap to judgement and call anyone "wrong", so rather than bringing my own potentially warped belief system further into this debate, I'll paste this excerpt from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/2.2.16-2000-07-14/R EADME.txt ** Specific Files of Interest Using the descriptions above, you need to select the directory containing the set of files which is appropriate to the installation you are doing. You will need all of the following `.bin' images, unless marked otherwise. .../rescue.bin Rescue disk image, containing the kernel and a boot loader. .../root.bin Root disk image, containing the root file system. And this excerpt, from the same README file, which offers a suggestion as to the manner in which these files are to be used: ** Writing Image Files to Floppies You can write the *.bin disk images to floppies with dd. Replace `<file>' with the name of the image file in the following command: dd of=/dev/fd0 if=<file> bs=1024 It seems like I should mention that I am acquainted with the (somewhat involved, but still fairly trivial) process of installing BSD on a Macintosh - I have NetBSD running on one of the SE/30's already. I am prepared to perform a normal install (over a network, from local drive, or from a CD) but I thought it would be prudent to at least see the machine boot a "rescue floppy" once before I committed myself to the entire process. I noticed while reading the Install README, that 32bit addressing must be enabled for the normal bootloader (via MacOS) to succeed. Since 32bit addressing is *not* enabled by default on the SE/30 (this is a quirk, some say error in the SE/30 ROM), I am wondering if this is the reason that the machine would not start from the floppy. If enabled, will Mode32 persist between warm boots? I think you see what I am getting at here.. As always, Bill. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org