On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:15:11 -0500
Sam Carleton <scarleton-prep@miltonstreet.com> wrote:

> In Jesse Peterson's "7248 Install success!" his 1st step
> is:  Boot the install floppy
>=20
> Is this a IBM boot disk or a NetBSD bootdisk which I need
> to make from one of the .fs files?
It is a NetBSD boot disk, e.g.
NetBSD-1.6/prep/installation/floppy/sysinst.fs You can boot this via
network also.

Once you got booted the install disk, leave the install system to a
single user shell. Mount some NFS volume where the generic.fs NetBSD
boot disk is located. use dd(1) or cat(1) to write this image to the raw
disk, e.g /dev/rsd0d. This makes the disk bootable. Unfortunately the
install programm has a bug and doesn't do this. So the install programm
leaves you with a full instaled machine, that can't boot. Once you have
the disk image on the disk you should be able to restart sysinstall and
continue to install the usual way. (Keep the "Personal RISC boot"
partition, it contains the kernel.)

> In step two, he referes to: "Apparently the PReP
> architecture firmware"  I see the word firmware I think
> hardware so I believe this is not a NetBSD thing, but a
> hardware issue.
On real computers the "BIOS" is caled firmware.=20
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