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