| On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:04:31AM -0500, Eric Ekong wrote:
| > SO what would one use then for an initial install of NetBSD?
|
| boot to a shell (CD, floppy, netboot, tape)
|
| disklabel (for each drive, don't forget bootblocks on boot device)
| newfs (for each partition)
| lather, rinse, and repeat for all disks

I once had a problem (i386, NetBSD 1.5.1) where the disk had not been
'fdisk''ed.   It worked in BSD, but the bios wouldn't try to boot, even
though boot blocks were installed.

fdisk fixed it... I'm not sure if it should be before or after disklabel in
your sequence...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofygoof.com>
To: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5.2 CD install over multiple disks


| On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:04:31AM -0500, Eric Ekong wrote:
| > SO what would one use then for an initial install of NetBSD?
|
| boot to a shell (CD, floppy, netboot, tape)
|
| disklabel (for each drive, don't forget bootblocks on boot device)
| newfs (for each partition)
| lather, rinse, and repeat for all disks
|
| mount all partitions
|
| extract the NetBSD sets with pax or tar
|
| you can go ahead and configure rc.conf and fstab on the new /etc if you
| like, or put it off until the next reboot.  (you'll get thrown into
| single-user mode if you don't do this.)
|
| once you've got one NetBSD machine set up, it's easy to infect^Winstall
| others.
|
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