On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:30:43AM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:I've tried to boot a P1 using a CD made from the boot-com.iso file from NetBSD/i386 -current, CVS updated on 13 March 2009, but it didn't get a far as running sysinst. I presume even new versions of NetBSD/i386 are supposed to run on machines of this vintage?Yes, of course. The fpa driver, however, seems to be pretty broken. If you drop to the boot prompt, then boot -c and remove fpa* you might get further.
Thanks Martin, running 'boot -c' and then 'disable fpa' did allow it to boot and run sysinst. (I didn't go as far as installing NetBSD though.)
Please file a PR!
I have. Ray