Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

[Michael Grayson <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thank you very much for the response. I did some web searching after I read your message and I do see that gxemul (at last at one time) was said to have a complete emulation of this device and that it was tested with NetBSD. I do wonder how that would work since these devices come with a ROM chip that loads WinCE which must then be used to boot NetBSD using the hpcboot utility. I'm wondering if there are some variables there that might be different between the gxemul and the actual device.

As far as the install medium, I used a compact flash card with a DOS partition for the bootstrap utility and install kernel. I tried various options to get the sets once I was installing, FTP seemed to be the most reliable.

Anyhow I'm happy to help in whatever way I can from my end. 

> On Apr 15, 2021, at 07:20, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 04:18:24PM -0400, Michael Grayson wrote:
>> Update on this. After quite a bit of tinkering I was able to
>> bootstrap the system by using sysinst to build the filesystem and then
>> manually installing the sets from the shell. I believe sysinst is
>> broken for this architecture; specifically, it is dumping core from the
>> progress utility. Not sure who to talk to about that.
> 
> I can help with sysinst specific issues, but I don't have that hardware
> and no idea how to easily test. What install medium is used, and
> can we run it in gxemul?
> 
> If basic tools like progress do not work, then something more serious
> is going on and we need to fix that first.
> 
> Martin