Kevin McEnhill wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Well, I have managed to get NetBSD installed on a PB170 with a HUGE 80MB 
> harddrive. To give myself some more NetBSD space, I am booting off of a 
> floppy. That works just fine but once NetBSD is running, I can't access 
> the floppy. When I try to mount /dev/fd/0 to /mnt it tells me that mount 
> needs a block device. So I went and created a block device (mknod 0,raw b 
> 21 5) and tried again. I now get a 'device not configured. I am using 
> PeeCee formatted floppies because I noticed that there was no 'mount_hfs' 
> command.
> 
> So, to solve my problem, I need one of three things. One, do we have 
> floppy support yet?

nope.

> If so, what am I doing wrong? Two, is there a 
> 'mount_hfs' command somewhere?

nope.

> If there is, how do I get it on the 
> harddrive? I do not have a network card and transfering from the floppy 
> is the problem I am trying to solve now. This kind of leads to the third 
> solution, do we have AppleShare support yet?

sort of.  we have netatalk support for ethernet only.

> That way I can mount an hfs 
> filesystem on another Mac and transfer the files I need. Actualy, is 
> there a way to transfer arbitrary files with 'NetBSD Installer'?

yes, you can use cpin/cpout in the installer's minishell.  you might also
want to check out the hfsutils package.

> I have 
> the kernal on another system and a bootdisk that boots System 7.0.1 and 
> AppleShare on a single floppy. That way, I can run the installer and boot 
> programs.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give. If I have not made myself clear, please 
> ask.

btw, much of this is covered somewhere in the FAQ:

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/

i hope this helps some.

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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