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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:24:26 -0700
From: Rob Ballantyne <ballanty@sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University
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Subject: Open Firmware help, please.
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  Hi,

  I've been attempting to get a handle on OF but I'm having trouble
doing what should be a trivial task.

  I've been trying to: allocate a block of storage, open the zip drive
and read block #0 of the zip into that storage.  So far 'alloc-mem'
seems
to do just fine allocating storage.  When I try:

>  " zip" select-dev

  I get:

>  " zip" select-dev DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed
>
>  can't OPEN device

  Is this because OF expects a non-Macintosh type disk label?  If so
what is the format?  Is the disk-label specified anywhere in the OF
documentation?  I could attempt to write a standard label using dd from
OS X.  


  Thanks for any advice anyone can provide.

Rob


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