Subject: Re: 1.5 Installation
To: Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
From: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>
List: port-pc532
Date: 12/01/2000 18:23:03
> Sorry Jon,
>
> I didn't get the install stuff fixed. It looks like installs need
> to be done by hand.
No problem. (I'm not paying you to do it after all. 8-) I'm just
trying to think of the simplest way to get a bare PC532 motherboard,
with a bare 1GB internal SCSI disk attached and a console serial
cable to a Sparcstation LX, up and running NetBSD-1.5 or -current.
I was hoping that it would be the 1.5 floppy-144.fs file.
I suppose I could pull the drive out and put it on the Sparc. Then
give it a sparc disklabel and filesystem, with all the pc532
binaries, and dd a pc532 partition map on it. (Or could I just
run bim on the Sparc?) Then move it back to the pc532, download a
kernel (with endian independent ffs support) over the serial port
and go. (I kind of want to avoid moving drives around, since I've
had a whole bunch of them go bad on me recently, and I don't feel
like tempting fate yet again...)
Alternately, I could see if someone could build a 3 or 4 meg disk
image to ftp and then dd onto the drive. (Which would still require
a screwdriver... OK, I guess I am getting lazy.) Or I suppose I
could just install NetBSD-1.4, and upgrade it to -1.5 (and haul it
up to -current if desired.)
Anything easier that I might have missed? Any deep pits to avoid
on the above ideas? Just kind of thinking out loud... (Please
ignore the sounds of rusty gears about to seize up... 8-)
Jon