So I tried what Warner and Maki described below on the RiscServer. Ftp-ed a mips ecoff .gz
image down on a Win2000 box; put it on a floppy using rawrite; stuck it in the RServer,
booted to the prompt; did 'run program' and typed arc path to flopppy; system then
complained that it didn't recognize file system. I don't think I'm doing anything stupid
on the dload...use bin etc. Rawrite doesn't complain and says successful. The RiscServer's
floppy is lighting up and trying to read. If you're trying an image that isn't right is
the disk just unreadable like that? Any ideas?

Sorry if I'm being vague/dense as I'm not sitting in front of the box at the moment. I
have access to one 'nix box, but it doesn't have a 3.5 floppy or cd...it is networked
though.




Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <13CDDE6A53DBD311BC3200508B6F0C48E9FDD6@ROVER> "Michael 'Maki' Kato" writes:
> : I don't have a RiscServer so, I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I did for
> : my Olivetti M700-10.
> :
> : Found/made a kernel that boots and that can see the scsi bus.  Put the
> : kernel on a floppy and booted from the arc prompt with something like
> :
> : multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\netbsd
> :
> : You may be able to boot elf images, or you may need coff image like me.
>
> You will almost certainly need ECOFF.  That's the spec for the boot
> loader in the ROMs on these machines.  I'm not aware of any machine
> that will do the right thing.
>
> : Once I verified that I had a good kernel, I connected a zip disk, and make a
> : NetBSD partition on the zip disk using a NetBSD/i386 machine, copied the
> : snapshot onto the zip, and specified the zip disk as my root partition(after
> : booting with floppy)
> :
> : >From there, I disklabel'd the internal scsi drive after fdisk, and mkfs, and
> : unzipped the snapshot into the internal disk.
> :
> : I have a dos partition on my internal drive, and I now have
> :
> : scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\netbsd
> :
> : as my default boot device.
> :
> : I suppose I could have connected the scsi disk to my NetBSD/i386 box, and
> : created the partitions directly there, copied the snapshot, and then move
> : the disk to the ARC box.  I ended up doing alot of back and forth stuff, so
> : I used zip.  Worked well for me.
> :
> : Hope this is of some help.
>
> Or you could blurn a cdrom and install off of cd:...
>
> Warner