How rough are the 2GB drives on your battery life?  That would be a real
improvement over the 256MB CF card I have now.

Jeff


On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:35, billy ball wrote:

> fyi:
> 
> - recently snarfed one of the Kingston 2GB PCMCIA HDs (they're going for 
> $79 on-line now)....
> 
> - formatted the drive (20MB DOS, Linux, 100MB DOS)... put 
> pbsdboot.exe, the install kernel (1.5.1) and the boot kernel (greg's 
> trkpt/audio/LCD version) on the 20MB partition... put the install files on 
> the 100MB DOS partition...
> 
> - booted the install kernel (from the 20MB DOS partition)... one 'gotcha' 
> was that i had to re-insert the card so that the installer would recognize 
> the card as an available drive...
> 
> - next 'gotcha' was that i had to go to the shell via the utility menu and 
> run disklabel to add the 100MB DOS partition as wd0f...
> 
> - selected the 'unmounted' filesystem option, fed it wd0f and msdos, and 
> ... bingo! the install proceeds...
> 
> nice job, NetBSD folks! 

-- 
Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>