Subject: Re: install problem
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: coriolinus <coriolinus@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/04/2005 04:42:41
I'd love to, but I don't own any floppy drives, and I'd rather not buy
one for the sole purpose of installing this OS. Is there any way I
could patch a kernel binary into an installation ISO so I could just
install from a (new) CD?

On 8/4/05, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:16:50AM +0900, coriolinus wrote:
> > I'm not sure how to copy the full boot message--this is the last bit
> > on the screen; it scrolls past far too fast for me to read, let alone
> > copy it by hand. If it would boot, I bet there would be logs, but it
> > won't.
> >
> > The motherboard is an ASUS P4S800-MX. According to
> > this:http://shopper.howstuffworks.com/products/ASUS+P4S800_MX+Motherboa=
rd/SF-1/PID-21209349
> > , it's got a SiS chipset.
>=20
> OK, from the ASUS site it should be a SIS 963 southbridge.
> This may have been fixed last june on current. I don't think this has bee=
n
> pulled up to the netbsd-2-0 branch, but it is in the netbsd-2.
> Please try a kernel/install floppy from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2/200507130000Z/i386/
>=20
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>