Subject: Re: CDROM install
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Volker Schmidt <volker@Illuminatus.MZ.Rhein-Main.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1997 21:31:17
In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.970224125814.22534I-100000@tachyon.mono.org>,
David Brownlee <david@mono.org> wrote:
: Assuming linux uses SunOS compatible disklabels (if it doesn't
: then the prom would complain when you tried to boot, so thats
: probably a safe bet :) you should be able to partition the
: drive under linux, copy the miniroot to the swap partition, and
: just go from there...
Confirmed. I did it initially that way. Another solution is to
grab that floppy combo from ftp.NetBSD.org. There were enough
tools to partition, label and download the miniroot.
--volker
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