Subject: bootable install cd for indy
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Thierry Lacoste <th.lacoste@wanadoo.fr>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/24/2005 21:27:25
I'm trying to install NetBSD on an indy R4400.
I cross-compiled a release on my -current i386 laptop in order
to create a bootable install cdrom.

I followed the instructions in
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2003/11/13/0000.html
BTW the second step should be "build the release" instead of
"build the distribution" otherwise the kernels are not built.

Here's what I did:

# ./build.sh -m sgimips -T ../sgi/tools/ -O ../sgi/obj/ -U -u release
# cp $DESTDIR/usr/mdec/*boot /tmp/sgiboot
# cp $RELDIR/sgimips/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL*.gz /tmp/sgi
# cd /tmp/sgi ; gunzip *
# cp -r $RELDIR/sgimips /tmp/sgi
# cd /tmp
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sgimips.img bs=1m count=30 
# vnconfig vnd0 sgimips.img
# $TOOLDIR/bin/nbsgivol -i vnd0
File open: No such file or directory

What did I miss?

Regards,
Thierry.