Subject: Re: Creating netbsd-sparc boot disk
To: Kerry Gray <kgray@netcom.com>
From: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/26/1996 00:10:38
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Kerry Gray wrote:
> What I would like to do is create a bootable netbsd root file system on 
> one of the external SCSI disks from another machine, viz., a PC running
> netbsd.  Can I do this?  Can I install a sparc bootblock from a non-sparc 
> machine using nothing more than disklabel?

Just netboot them worry about getting the disks working once the
machines are up.  I did just that with an SS2 here.  Works fine.
(remember, your filesystems must start and end on cylender boundaries.)

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