Subject: Re: New system: can NetBSD live outside of first 8GB of disk?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/24/2000 16:45:26
From the ftp.netbsd.org server:

257 "/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/1.4.2_ALPHA/i386/installation/floppies"
is t
he current directory.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 24864
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  2949120 Dec 21 01:40 boot-big.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1418135 Dec 21 01:40 boot-big.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1228800 Dec 21 01:40 boot-tiny.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1050351 Dec 21 01:40 boot-tiny.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1474560 Dec 21 01:39 boot.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1415411 Dec 21 01:40 boot.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1474560 Dec 21 01:39 boot1.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  1446208 Dec 21 01:40 boot1.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd    57344 Dec 21 01:39 boot2.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd    40310 Dec 21 01:40 boot2.fs.gz
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 630 bytes received in 0.17Seconds 3.71Kbytes/sec.

Which do I want, boot.fs.gz or both boot1 and boot2?  The installation
document doesn't seem to refer to the boot.fs file.

Steven G.


At 08:24 PM 2/24/00 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:53:39AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote:
>> My current work PC is being replaced with a new one.  There are two main
>> problems with running NetBSD on it:
>> 
>> 1)  The network card is not supported (3C905C) (but will be soon after I
>> get NetBSD running on it...)
>
>Check the latest 1.4.2_ALPHA snapshot, the boot floppy should support it.
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
>--
>
>