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  I recently picked up an SGI Indigo2 Impact (IP22/R4400 @ 250mhz)
from a company that surpluses their old hardware. Since the
hard drive came totally wiped, and with no cd-rom drive to install
Irix from (even if I did have a copy), I turned to NetBSD.
Using the NetBSD-1.6 release, I was able to netboot the machine
from my NetBSD/Sparc64 machine with the install+ramdisk kernel and
installation went smoothly.
  I ran in to one small problem that I was able to fix with a day
of head-scratching and digging up some old manuals, but maybe it
should be thrown in to the FAQ or maybe I screwed up something:
  After installing and rebooting, the system complained that rc.conf
was not configured, so would only boot in to single-user mode. I had
to use `mount -A` to get r/w access to the / partition and then use
the ex line-editor to change the line from configured=NO to =YES.
I'm curious as to why the system defaults to thinking it is not
configured. I don't remember having to do this when installing on
my Sun Ultra workstation.
  A second question: The Indigo2 has 320megs of ram in it, all of which
are detected by hinv, but NetBSD only seems to be detecting and using
the first 256megs. Is there some way to let it know there is more, or
is this a hard limit?

  Anyways, thanks for all your hard work in getting NetBSD working on
this machine, as the linux guys (last I looked) had abandoned their
porting attempts before much success.

-James