Re: Re (2): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[Jon Buller <jon%bullers.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:37 -0700, peasthope%shaw.ca@localhost wrote:
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:31:39 -0700
> From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost> 
> > is there a reason netboot is not being mentioned?
> 
> OK; with the 4.0.1 netboot I get to sysinst.  It reports 
> "I can not find any hard disks for use by Net-BSD.";   
> but I know there is one internal and one external disk.
> Going to /bin/sh in the Utilities and issueing "fdisk -l" 
> gives nothing.  Tips?

Don't use fdisk on a NetBSD/sparc, that is what disklabel and newfs is
for.  Watch the boot messages for the disk names and hand the one(s) you
want of to disklabel to partition them.  If your netbooting, it might be
simpler to do a whole diskless install, and use that as a
backup/bootstrap for your final destination.

Sometimes the installed "fluff" can be handy, like using factor and bc
to figure out a fake cylinder size to use all the sectors on a disk,
instead of just using cyl * trk/cyl * sec/trk which is usually a bit
short of the whole disk.  All those numbers should be in the boot
messages as well.  Or use real editors for all the config files
installed on the /mnt mounted local soon-to-be-boot-disk, it's sometimes
a lot easier than the tools squeezed into an install image.

I'd give you more specific details, but it's been a while since I had a
NetBSD-4 installation, and that was sun4m anyway, not sun4c.  (Not that
there is any significant install difference I can think of.)

Jon