Subject: Creating netbsd-sparc boot disk
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kerry Gray <kgray@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/24/1996 17:21:22
The local college where I work has acquired a number of Sun4c's, donated
by a federal agency. As is customary with such donations, the disks have
all been wiped clean. I would like to make use of these machines, and
netbsd seems a good way to do this.
What I would like to do is create a bootable netbsd root file system on
one of the external SCSI disks from another machine, viz., a PC running
netbsd. Can I do this? Can I install a sparc bootblock from a non-sparc
machine using nothing more than disklabel?