Subject: Re: Help Installing on Sony Picturebook
To: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/17/2002 21:24:21
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:16:22PM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
> I'm trying to get 1.6B2 installed on a Sony Picturebook.  The only
> problem is that the only install method I have available is the Sony
> CD51 pcmcia cdrom (sorry, I don't own the USB floppy).
> 
> Not a problem, except that I need a boot image that supports pcmcia and
> pcmcia cdroms.  I was thinking that bootlap may do the trick.  However,
> I can't seem to create a valid boot image.
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
> cat bootlap1.fs bootlap2.fs > bootlap-tmp.fs
> dd if=bootlap-tmp.fs of=bootlap-big.fs ibs=2880k obs=2880k conv=sync

Well, no, this is not the way to do a boot-big image.
I don't know how it can be done sarting from boot1/2.fs.
The easierst is probably starting from sources, and changing the boot-big
Makefile to use INSTALL_LAPTOP instead of INSTALL.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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