Hi,
Martin Husemann wrote,

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:06:03PM +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> > What install image can be used?
> > I have a 512 MB swap partition and tried to use
> > boot-big.fs and boot-com1.fs (write it with dd).
> 
> These are floppy images. Apparently the i386 port does not create a suitable
> "miniroot" image as some other ports do - probably because there has not
> been much demand yet.

Ok. What about changing this in the future?

> It would be easy to add though (it is created anyway and embeded into the
> kernel on the floppy images).
> 
> You could download source on another computer and cross-compile a NetBSD
> release, then pick up the "miniroot.fs" created, transfer that to the
> root server, dd onto swap partition and boot it - then install the official
> sets or your home made ones.

I have a working i386 NetBSD workstation, but I have problems to
modify the Makefiles to get a miniroot.fs for i386. 
Any ideas how I could create them manually? 
There are many include files, so understanding the buildsystem
is not very trivial.

Thanks for you advice.

bye
    Waldemar  

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