Just an update of my woes. So I took the netbsd.GENERIC.ecoff and the
netbsd.ecoff files described below, burned them onto a cd, put that in the
RiscServer, changed the arc path to the cdrom, fired it off and it says:
Error: The file or device does not exist, press any key to continue

the cdrom shows activity ie lights up, so I'm thinking it has to be my
ecoff. I'm perplexed that these ecoffs won't fit on a floppy. I'm under
the understanding that these were designed for floppies? So now I think
I've screwed the files up somehow in the process of downloading them and
getting them on the cd? Any ideas?

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Kurt Bloom wrote:

> So I'm messing with netbsd.PCCONS.ecoff.gz and netbsd.COMCONS.ecoff.gz.
> They have to be extracted right? Well when I extract them in winzip
> they're too big for a floppy. The PCCONS creates a netbsd.GENERIC.ecoff at
> 2905 KB, the COMCONS makes a netbsd.ecoff at 1809 KB. They are both ECOFF
> file type. Again I'm doing this on a Win2000 box.
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michael 'Maki' Kato wrote:
> 
> > Oh, you needn't rawwrite it.  The arc should be able to read FAT floppies,
> > so you want to just dos copy the file onto a floppy.
> > 
> > ....maki....
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kbloom [mailto:kbloom@winternet.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:04 PM
> > To: 'port-arc@netbsd.org'
> > Subject: Re: NEC RiscServer 2200
> > 
> > 
> > So I tried what Warner and Maki described below on the RiscServer. Ftp-ed a
> > mips ecoff .gz
> > image down on a Win2000 box; put it on a floppy using rawrite; stuck it in
> > the RServer,
> > booted to the prompt; did 'run program' and typed arc path to flopppy;
> > system then
> > complained that it didn't recognize file system. I don't think I'm doing
> > anything stupid
> > on the dload...use bin etc. Rawrite doesn't complain and says successful.
> > The RiscServer's
> > floppy is lighting up and trying to read. If you're trying an image that
> > isn't right is
> > the disk just unreadable like that? Any ideas?
> > 
> > Sorry if I'm being vague/dense as I'm not sitting in front of the box at the
> > moment. I
> > have access to one 'nix box, but it doesn't have a 3.5 floppy or cd...it is
> > networked
> > though.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > > In message <13CDDE6A53DBD311BC3200508B6F0C48E9FDD6@ROVER> "Michael 'Maki'
> > Kato" writes:
> > > : I don't have a RiscServer so, I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I did
> > for
> > > : my Olivetti M700-10.
> > > :
> > > : Found/made a kernel that boots and that can see the scsi bus.  Put the
> > > : kernel on a floppy and booted from the arc prompt with something like
> > > :
> > > : multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\netbsd
> > > :
> > > : You may be able to boot elf images, or you may need coff image like me.
> > >
> > > You will almost certainly need ECOFF.  That's the spec for the boot
> > > loader in the ROMs on these machines.  I'm not aware of any machine
> > > that will do the right thing.
> > >
> > > : Once I verified that I had a good kernel, I connected a zip disk, and
> > make a
> > > : NetBSD partition on the zip disk using a NetBSD/i386 machine, copied the
> > > : snapshot onto the zip, and specified the zip disk as my root
> > partition(after
> > > : booting with floppy)
> > > :
> > > : >From there, I disklabel'd the internal scsi drive after fdisk, and
> > mkfs, and
> > > : unzipped the snapshot into the internal disk.
> > > :
> > > : I have a dos partition on my internal drive, and I now have
> > > :
> > > : scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\netbsd
> > > :
> > > : as my default boot device.
> > > :
> > > : I suppose I could have connected the scsi disk to my NetBSD/i386 box,
> > and
> > > : created the partitions directly there, copied the snapshot, and then
> > move
> > > : the disk to the ARC box.  I ended up doing alot of back and forth stuff,
> > so
> > > : I used zip.  Worked well for me.
> > > :
> > > : Hope this is of some help.
> > >
> > > Or you could blurn a cdrom and install off of cd:...
> > >
> > > Warner
> > 
> 
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