Re: NWS netbooting

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 14 March 2013 22:32, Boyanich, Alastair
<Alastair.Boyanich%au.fujitsu.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> G'day Aaron,
>
>> I've had the best luck using uncompressed kernels. Make sure you add
>> the correct checksum with ncdcs(1): In NetBSD 5.0, the build system
>> has a bug where the checksum isn't added. I haven't fired mine up in a
>> while so that may still be the case in v6.
>
> Ah ha! I didn't even know of the ncdcs util's existence. Reading the man
> page it's usage seems pretty obvious ..thank you!
>
> Hopefully the port maintainer will put an install-guide or something
> with the distro. It's completely lacking anything and I didn't know I
> had to do this. :)

If you have a little time then it would be superb if you could send in
a start to distrib/notes/ibmnws/ :)
I'd suggest taking a copy of a similar port and then tweaking the text
and adding notes for ncdcs...