Subject: Re: NetBSD kernel + all SunOS binaries?
To: None <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/28/1995 08:01:28
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:42:27 +0200
frank@fwi.uva.nl wrote:
> of booting the machine with a NetBSD kernel, but with the filesystem
> still filled with SunOS 4.1.1 binaries (and with COMPAT_SUNOS in the kernel.
> It should at least get to single-user that way? It is a usual way of
> bootstrapping a port, so I assume that it will work, but I'm just asking to
> be sure.
I've done this on a sparc before, but I was trying to get a SCSI driver
working and just wanted to see if it worked at all ... I usually
bootstrap a Sun by netbooting it ... The Sun 3 can label disks now, and
has native boot code, so you can strip the last remnants of SunOS clean
away :-)
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