On Thu, 16 Nov 1995 04:39:03 -0800 
 Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote:

 > The most obvious thing I can see here is that you end up with an old 4.2/SunOS
 > root partition and boot blocks, which I know we're trying to get away from
 > (but damn, the thought of disaster recovery if you can't just whip out a
 > SunOS CD-ROM and boot from it and mount the "real" root onto /a, etc. gives me
 > the willies  (-:   Oh, for a bootable NetBSD/SPARC 1.1 CD-ROM with the NetBSD
 > bootblocks and "installboot" in the future ...).

Well, you could always "fsck -c2" the other partitions and install NetBSD 
boot blocks...  As for disaster recovery, I use a pair of floppies, one 
with a kernel and /boot, one with a small filesystem.  I use "boot fd() -a".
The bug is, I have to use a straightened paperclip to pop the boot disk 
out of the drive.  Maybe there needs to be some sort of hook for ejecting 
the floppy from the drive so one doesn't have to be foreceful :-)

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Jason R. Thorpe                                         thorpej@Xenotropic.COM

           Just me and my collection of obsolete computer gear(s).