Subject: Re: Getting NetBSD onto an IPC.
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@espus.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/09/2000 09:50:35
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Darren Reed wrote:
> How does one get NetBSD onto a Sun IPC these days ? I'm told the floppy
> driver is broken in -current - the boot.fs's that I've downloaded from
> snapshots have failed to find the kernel. If I attempt to boot a 1.4.1
> or 1.4.2 floppy, it screws up when probing bwtw0 - see PR#10307. Will
> a netboot of -current work ?
Last time I did this, I netbooted 1.4 (IIRC) to install onto the IPC, then
loaded -current after I had the bootable 1.4 enviroment. But that was a
while ago, so YMMV.
-Jon
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