Eric,
So I here is what I have currently. =20
1.  PV760N
2.  It is Serial connected to one of my PC's at home.
3.  Here is what is my unit
	a.  Qlogic 2000 connected to one 18 GB drive for now
	b.  4 GB SCSI drive and CD-ROM connected to the internal HD port
	c.  Tape drive connected to the external SCSI port
	d.  1 GB fiber ethernet cart
	e.  3 - internal ethernet adapters
	f.  1 GB of RAM
	g.  There is on card in the pv that has a bunch of ram on it with=20
		no enternal connections.  Any thoughts on what it is=3F

Here is what I tried.
goto to a ok prompt and boot from CD.  The 760 stated that VVs loaded.
That is about as far as I have gotten so far.

So I need to build boot disks for the NetBSD.  Do I use the multiboot CD or=
 =
is there another verison of the NetBSD that I need to use.  So I am to =
assume that I am going to network installation from this point.  Is it goin=
g=
 to need to be TFTP or can I install from a network share or will the cd-ro=
m=
 drive work at that point.  I really wish I could get ontap but I guess i =
will be using NetBSD on it.

Anymore help would be awesome.  I am going to set it up as file server with=
 =
a 100 gb of storage avaiable.

RC


-----Original Message-----
=46rom: Eric Fox [mailto:eric@bsdsystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:37 PM
To: Carter, Ron (RBC Centura)
Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 760N


Describe the laptop for me.  I assume it came with a CD drive=3F  Do you
also have an internal or external floppy drive=3F

As you've probably noticed, the little SOB won't boot from the CD drive --
at least, mine never did.  I found a 550(=3F) with an internal floppy drive
that would also fit in the 760.  So I swapped out the cd drive for the
=66loppy and booted on the pair of install diskettes.  Once the system was
up, I let it do all the partitioning and such but, of course, I couldn't
actually install anything because it was all on the CD, and I couldn't get
to it.  So I mounted up one of the boot diskettes (I can't remember if it
was disk A or B ... probably A), and copied the kernel to wd0a.  Then I
shutdown the laptop, pulled the floppy drive, reinstalled the cd drive,
and booted it up again.  Since the kernel on wd0a was the install kernel,
it booted right into sysinst.  Not exactly sure why this worked, but I
assumed all the RAM drive stuff was incorporated in the kernel file.
Anyway, once you get to this point, it's a snap to do the rest of the
install.

Since then, I've found that it's much easier if you have an external
=66loppy drive, or at least have an old 3com PCMCIA NIC so you can install
=66rom the network.

I hope you don't mind, but I've CC'd this to the users list so it'll be in
the archives for the next guy.

Good luck ... let me know how it worked for you.

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