At 10:13 PM +0200 7/17/00, Martin Husemann wrote:
>What I tried was: put the boot.fs from the latest snapshot onto a disk and
>boot that via
>
>  boot fd:0

You probably know this, but you did copy boot.fs with SunTar right? 
I have had good luck with the dated images.  I think the February one 
is what I'm using now.

>This resulted in the "CLAIM failed" error described in the FAQ; trying it
>again did not help. Then I created a DOS floppy with ofwboot.xcf, ofwboot.elf
>and netbsd.gz on it. And tried
>
>  boot fd:1,ofwboot.xcf
>
>This successfully loaded ofwboot, which tried to read "netbsd" and failed
>(obviously, it wouldn't fit on the disk). So at the "Boot:" prompt I entered
>
>  Boot: netbsd.gz
>
>but that didn't work too:

Try boot "fd:1,ofwboot.xcf -a" so it gets to the prompt before 
getting any errors.  Then you can enter netbsd.gz with no leading /. 
I'm suspicious that OF doesn't clean up properly after errors, and 
that there may be bugs in the filesystem code that might trace 
through directory trees.

Also there's no use having ofwboot.elf on the disk if you need to use 
the .xcf version.

>Last try was network:
>
>  boot enet
>
>didn't do anything (the DHCP server did not see any query).

I presume you saw the netbooting HowTo.

>In the meantime I learned how to use OF as a calculator - but I'd rather
>run NetBSD on this machine ;-)

I've certainly had fun with OF.  You can dev to various nodes in the 
device tree and try .properties and words to see what's there. 
Doesn't tell you how to actually use the defined words though.

Good luck.


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