Re: How to get some needed binaries for an old installation (to do a system update to NetBSD 9.3)

[Christian Groessler <chris%groessler.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Dennis Dingeldein wrote:

> I am trying to update a MicroVAX 3100, running an old NetBSD 1.5.3.
> 
> My idea was to add NetBSD 9.3 on another disk. So I attached an additional
> hard drive to the machine and wanted to partition that disk and partition it.
> 
> On one partition I wanted to put the NetBSD installation and boot from that
> drive then.
> 
> My problem now is, on that 1.5.3 installation, there is no fdisk and no mkfs.
> I checked the installations tgz files located here
> https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.5.3/vax/binary/sets/,
> but these also do not contain mkfs and fdisk.
> 
> From where can I get these files to continue my installation of NetBSD 9.3. ?
> 
> I am very restricted in my options for the installation, I have harddisk,
> cdrom and maybe floppy(not tested). With cdrom I've already failed,
> 
> because MicroVAX console boot loader seems to have problems with either the
> drive or the ISO image containing NerttBSD 9.3 I've used
> 
> (downloaded from https://ftp.fau.de/netbsd/NetBSD-9.3/iso/NetBSD-9.3-vax.iso )
> 
> So my question is
> 
> from where can I get 1.5.3 versions of fdisk and mkfs. I saw there is newfs,
> which may replace mkfs. But fdisk still seems missing.
> 
> Or is there an easier way to do it? Any help welcome
> 
> (I am a NetBSD new user. But using Linux for +30 years, so both newbie and old
> rabbit).
> 


You use "disklabel" (instead of fdisk) and "newfs" (instead of mkfs).

regards,
chris