Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD/sparc from Solaris 2.6
To: Alan Perry <alanp@collabracare.com>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/1997 23:04:27
> I booted the target machine off the 2.6 CD-ROM and repartitioned the disk,
> newfs'ed
> it and installed NetBSD. I also used the 2.6 installboot to put bootxx
> onto the disk.
> However, this did not result in a bootable NetBSD disk.
You might try:
(1) using solaris installboot + the solaris first stage bootstrap
to point at a NetBSD second stage boot program (eg. `/boot').
(maybe this is would you did, I'm not sure exactly how
solaris does these things)
or
(2) using all of solaris bootstrap programs and just tell them
to boot the kernel `/netbsd'. (but maybe it cannot load
anything but a ELF kernel).
Of course you can also boot over the net from your other machine. I seem
to remember that you can even have the machine TFTP the netbsd kernel
directly (in stead of another boot program), but I'm not really sure.
-pk