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.



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