Subject: Re: netbsd on indy
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore32@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/11/2003 17:34:49
david l goodrich dlg@iastate.edu asked;
> from the faq at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/faq.html :
>
> * Then prepare a second hard disk with NetBSD's FFS and disklabel. You
> then tell the kernel to use root/swap on the second disk. The firmware
> can't currently boot the kernel from an FFS filesystem, though, and
> you'll need to boot that via the net for now.
>
> ... so you /always/ have to netboot the machine? even after the OS is
> installed?
NetBSD on SGI Indy is standalone and self hosted. I completed NetBSD
installation within 20min, as a first try, and was quite surprised at how
R5000
processor runs fast...
Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology