port-mips/58848: Unclear how to install to erlite3 internal storage

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>Number:         58848
>Category:       port-mips
>Synopsis:       Unclear how to install to erlite3 internal storage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-mips-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 22 21:55:00 +0000 2024
>Originator:     Taylor R Campbell
>Release:        current, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
The ErliteBSD Installation
>Environment:
>Description:
The port page at https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbmips/ mentions the erlite3 but doesn't link to instructions for installing NetBSD onto the internal storage (which, if I recall correctly, is umass(4)).  Can it boot an image from an external USB port and run sysinst that way?  Does it require U-Boot incantations?

I have only ever netbooted it with dhcp/tftp/nfs using the manual U-Boot incantations:

dhcp
tftp $loadaddr OCTEON
bootoctlinux $loadaddr root=cnmac0
>How-To-Repeat:
seek to install NetBSD on erlite3
>Fix:
Yes, please!

Maybe it's just a matter of making a link to this information more obvious, if it's already written down somewhere.