On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andy Ball wrote:
> I'm really pleased with the way that 'pedwar', my SPARCstation 5 is
> running NetBSD-1.6.2.  I would also like to get a SPARCstation 1+
> running as my 24/7 machine, since it sips about 25W.  It has a
> Quantum Fireball hard disk at ID 0 and for the installation I have
> connected externally a 100 Mb Zip drive (ID 5) and a Plextor CD-ROM
> (ID 6).
> 
> Typing "boot cdrom" at the firmware (ROM 1.3) ok prompt gets me into
> "NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.12".  I'm prompted for a
> device and then (I think) a kernel file.  What is the correct way to
> specify the CD-ROM at ID 6?  I've tried "sd(0,6,0)", "cd(0,6,0)",
> "cdrom" and a few other things besides, all without success.

Perhaps it wants the NetBSD /dev device file? As in /dev/cd0a or
equivalent? It's been a while since I did my installs, but the only
place I remember entering something like that was when I specified
where the dist files were... and that did want the /dev/cd0a path.

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