Subject: Re: HD size & NWS-3710
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Mauricio <supremedalek@hotpop.com>
List: port-newsmips
Date: 01/05/2004 08:02:25
At 14:53 +0900 1/5/04, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>In article <a06002003bc1e3dc9e883@[10.0.0.10]>
>raub@kudria.com wrote:
>
>>  >ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC3/
>>
>>	So, you mean to install using releng as the ftp site?
>
>Yes.

	Ok, I did so and it did not complain during the installation. 
Now, how do I tell it to reboot from the HD?

NEWS> eject
NEWS> bo sd0
Bad device specification.
NEWS>

does not seem to do the trick.

>  >	Do let me know when that happens! =)
>
>If you can build binaries from sources, please try this patch:
>
>Index: distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk/list
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk/list,v
>retrieving revision 1.14
>diff -u -r1.14 list
>--- distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk/list	19 Jan 2003 12:26:56 
>-0000	1.14
>+++ distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk/list	5 Jan 2004 05:51:55 -0000
>@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>
>  SPECIAL	dmesg		srcdir	distrib/utils/x_dmesg
>  SPECIAL	ed		srcdir	distrib/utils/x_ed
>-SPECIAL	gzip		srcdir	distrib/utils/x_gzip
>+#SPECIAL	gzip		srcdir	distrib/utils/x_gzip
>  SPECIAL	ifconfig	srcdir	distrib/utils/x_ifconfig
>  SPECIAL	more		srcdir	distrib/utils/more
>  SPECIAL	ping		srcdir	distrib/utils/x_ping

	What do I need to build binaries from source?  Until I get 
this 3710 to work with netbsd, what I have is:

o Sparc 20 running Solaris 9
o Sparc IPX running Debian 3
o DEC 5000/25 running netbsd 1.6.1