Fabian Wenk wrote:

>Hello Pete
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>Pete Alexander wrote:
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>>   I've been trying to install NetBSD onto an O2 R5000, machine which was
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>>   dks0d4s8: Volume Header not valid
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>Boot CDs for SGI Hardware (or probably only the O2) need to have a
>special header which is not (yet) part of the NetBSD build process.
>This was discussed here many times, and also some steps have been
>shown how to create such a CD. See in the mailing list archive.
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>I did Installation of SGI O2 thourgh netboot, the first time back
>with 2.0-BETA, but this also worked with 2.0-RELEASE and will
>probably still work with 3.0. I did not try this yet.
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>I hope my little checklist "How to install NetBSD 2.0_BETA on a SGI
>O2 with MIPS R10000 CPU" [1] can help you with this.
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>  [1] http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt
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>bye
>Fabian
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That is rather helpful but the problem is that I don't yet have a 
machine that I can use as a TFTP server >.<! and right now my $30 router 
is doing DHCP.
I've also downloaded the x86-64bit version which I will use on my 
workstation and probably wait to see what happens with the SGI port.
At the moment I don't really have the resources to make a server to do 
what I need to do. Unless I can do it in a VM?

Thanks anyways.

-Pete