Subject: Re: NetBSD and Sparc2 with wiped harddisk
To: Dane Ohe <djohe@usgs.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/11/1996 14:57:54
On Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:41:11 -0500 (CDT)
Dane Ohe <djohe@usgs.gov> wrote:
> 1) My sparc has a floppy drive (but the floppy image under
> ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc doesn't work for me).
Hmm ... what exactly is the failure mode?
> 2) I have a QIC-150 tape that I can write under DG/UX (m88k SVr4).
> Is it possible to write a boot tape?
It might be possible to do this, yes, in the same manner the sun3 does
it...though the code hasn't been written for or tested on the sparc.
> 3) I have (root) access to a DG/UX (m88k SRv4) machine that I
> could try to netboot from. Would I have a problem (e.g. trying
> to make the /dev? entries) doing this from DG/UX?
This, I don't know...
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