Subject: Re: Bootable CD..
To: Sean Murphy <sean@cbrmain.cbr.nrc.ca>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/10/2000 12:54:45
its not done yet (waiting for some of my time to test instructions), but
there is the start of a bootable CD how-to at
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/netbsd/bootcd.html
one of the issues with making a bootable sun CD is running the
'mksunbootcd' program on the ISO image. I have not investigated if this
program can be run on other systems (other == !NetBSD/sparc).
If you come across good info thats missing from the how-to, please forward
it to me. I really will get this finished up someday.
-Dan
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:
> greetinks. I have a sparcstation 4 (as you may already know) that I think
> would work a lot better if i could get a clean re-install of NetBSD on.
> I've got an external 1xCDROM drive that'll plug right into her, but no
> floppy drive in it. Anyone know if its possible to make a NetBSD bootable
> cd for sparcs? I know openbsd does it, so there MUST be a way, but I
> dunno how. If openbsd put their sparc bootable cd image somewhere i'd
> burn that, boot, swap cds to the NetBSD one and install NetBSD since (i'd
> assume) they're similar enough to accomodate this. Anyone got any ideas?
> I'm off to hunt for an external floppy drive for this thing, but without
> much hope...
>
> --Sean
>