Subject: Re: Creating netbsd-sparc boot disk
To: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
From: Kerry Gray <kgray@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/26/1996 07:30:54
On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Kerry Gray wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Just netboot them worry about getting the disks working once the
> machines are up. I did just that with an SS2 here. Works fine.
> (remember, your filesystems must start and end on cylender boundaries.)
>
I can't do that right now, since I don't have an adapter to go from the
AUI on the sparc to the 10BaseT sockets on my net.