On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:

> Well, that Bootable CD howto was definately informative.  However, since
> you need a sparc w/ NetBSD to make a NetBSD-sparc bootable CD, I'm still
> pretty much sh*t out of luck, what? :-)
> 
> Anyone know if mksunbootcd has been ported to other platforms?  Or if
> there's another way to make a CD bootable for sparc?  I tried that
> "mkisofs -b boot-141.fs blah..." stuff under linux, but that, of course,
> only does the el torrito hack to the CD, making it acceptable for making
> i386 boot disks, but apparently not sparcs.  If all else fails, is there
> anyone out there with a fast connection and a NetBSD Sparc who can
> mksunbootcd an iso for me and put it somewhere so i can download it and
> burn it?

I have a ss5 running 1.4.1 at home which I can give you access to.  It
doesn't have a cd writer attatched, but it's got a 2gb disk and a 784k
connection to the net.  I could put it up this evening if you like.  You
can do anything you like with the machine, as I'll soon be installing
1.4.2...

-Jon
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