Ross Alexander wrote:

> * bob meader <bob@cci.net>:
>
> > Ross Alexander wrote:
> >
> >> I'm having trouble with this, maybe someone can help me figure out
> >> what I'm doing wrong.
> >
> > I'll do a sanity check tomorrow at the office to see I didn't have a
> > bad image...The way I made the iso.image is I first  burned the CD on
>
> Have you had a chance to check on it? I'm still curious if I was going
> about things the right way.
>

It looks OK however the the software I am using to make an ISO imageseems
to cuae problems with some CDWriters .. don't know why.

> I just finished an install -- booting from the cd I put together as per
> your instructions. It went pretty smoothly, there were just a couple of
> hitches, maybe not your problem(s).
>
> 1) After I selected a timezone install said I was done -- it didn't
> automatically go into network configuration. (It's been a while since
> I've done a NetBSD install, perhaps this is the way it's designed to
> work?)
>

Bug it install program NetBSD 1.5 Release.

> 2) I manually selected network configuration from the menu, set
> everything up, but apparently it didn't get saved as there was no
> network configuration after I rebooted.
>

See above.

> 3) I'm booting (netbsd.eco) from a fat partition on sd0, but NetBSD is
> on sd1, right now I have to enter sd1a as the root partition each time
> I boot. I know I can set that manually, but was install supposed to set
> that up for me?
>
>

The machdep.c file in arc/arc assumes the root partition is locatedon the
first NetBSD partition located on the same drive where
the FAT partition contaning the boot kernel ( ie Netbsd.eco).
You'll have change above file and recompile kernel to change...Nasty!