Subject: Re: 5000/25, Netboot
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/08/1997 01:20:30
On Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:14:15 +0900,
  Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp> writes:

In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 1997 20:14:05 -0700"

>* Entire installation steps can be done in rather radicurous way; for
>example, it's possible to make filesystems and install NetBSD/pmax in
>a disk attached with *BSD/i386 by manipulating host system UNIX
>commands.  It can work well because *BSD/i386 is little endian system,
>however, i386 has machine dependent peculiarities in boot area
>different from pmax.  After all you have to install valid disklabel
>and bootblocks even with the case.

Did you know there's a 32Mbyte diskimage with a full 1.2G root
filesystem, bootblocks, and fake label, that can just be dd'ed
onto the target disk?