Hi,

I wanted to try netBSD on my C-Series (2010C), which is quite the same as the 
800C except that it has 20Mb of memory and a colour screen (and much less 
battery life time).

I have also a 130Mb ATA-Flash memory card, but I didn't succeed to install 
netBSD on it. My problem is that I didn't understand the installation 
procedure. Unfortunately, I lack time so I gave up.
It would be great if someone could take a little time to write briefly how we 
can do a basic installation. The problem of the installation procedure 
described in the hpcmips distribution is that it looks it has been copied 
from a generic installation procedure, and modified for hpcmips. But a lot of 
questions have no answer.

Here's a description of what I've done, and some questions :

- First, I have to format my ATA-Flash card. I need 1 DOS partition for 
storing psdboot.exe when I reboot my 2010C, and some little programs I use 
with winCE (but I hope I won't use them any more when netBSD is installed). 
To do this, I used a laptop with a pcmcia port. This laptop uses windows NT, 
and I cannot reformat it because this laptop is shared with my collegues. So 
I created installation diskettes from the i386 distribution, and boot from 
them.
No problems for partitionning and formating the ATA card, except that it asks 
me the number of cylinders, etc.... that I don't know and I didn't find this 
information over the web. So I used the proposed values. But after this, the 
DOS partition I created looks unreadable, with WinNT and winCE also.

- Then, I'd like to uncompress and copy the packages. Here's the main 
problem. My network card (3com !) is not recognized... The install program 
cannot read the NTFS formatted local disk. It's written that it's possible to 
make diskettes containing the distribution sets, but I don't understand how 
we can copy 12Mb files onto a 1,44Mb floppy....

- Another way is to run the installation process directly from my 2010C. But 
since the pcmcia port contains the ATA card, I cannot use a network pcmcia 
card. The only way to communicate is the com port (or the buit-in "modem"). 
It's also impossible to copy the sets onto the winCE "disk" because the 
memory is cleared by psdboot.

This is the state I reached when I gave up. Another way to try is to copy the 
distribution sets onto the ATA (if I succeed to read this #!!@ DOS partition) 
and run the installation process from the 2010C. But that way, I'll be short 
on disk space. I'd like to have a C-compiler, a text editor (vi, why not ? 
emacs is a little bit big...) and a simple X server. No matter if there isn't 
any helpfile and if the communication abilities are limited to file transfer. 
Are 130Mb enougth for this ?

Any help would be welcome, to help me become one more tester....

Stéphan BERNARD

Le Mardi 31 Juillet 2001 04:30, Jun Ebihara a écrit :
> From: Alberto Garcia <albgarse@terra.es>
> Subject: hpcmips on C-Series
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:33:59 -0400
>
> > any one has hpcmips bsd port running on Compaq C-Series 800 model?
> > If so, what configuration are necesary to install it? (memory,
>
> etc...).
>
> > My model has 8MB. Is this enought?
>
> enough.more testers welcome.
> --
> jun ebihara

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