From: St=E9phan BERNARD <stephan.bernard@clermont.cemagref.fr>
Subject: Re: hpcmips on C-Series
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:52:43 +0200

> - On my ATA card, I have 2 partitions, the first one for dos, the seco=
nd one =

> for netBSD. The sets are on my dos partition, so I suppose I have to i=
nstall =

> them from an "unmounted filesystem". But which device & file system sh=
ould I =

> choose ? I tryed "wd0" for device, and "dos" for filesystem, but it do=
esn't =

> work. "wd0a" seems to be my netBSD filesystem. Anyway, I always obtain=
 the =

> message "/ could not be mounted on local device wd0a"...

Please check =

  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#ms_partition
  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hpcmips/install.txt

> - Should I install the kernel set, or should it be on my DOS filesyste=
m to be =

> found by psdboot ? If I have to install the kernel, do I have to tar i=
t (for =

> now it's only gzipped) ?

pbsdboot can find the kernel file on the MS-DOS partition and on the
NetBSD partition.

ATA Card
  +MS-DOS partition
  | \netbsd
  | \netbsd.gz
  +NetBSD partition
    /netbsd
    /netbsd.gz

they are all ok for pbsdboot.
-
jun ebihara