Hi,
 That is not quite my user experience.

If you dd the image to the drive you want to install on, upon bootup
disklabel/kernel will incorrectly detect the drive as a 2 mb drive.  You
have to dd some zeroes to the drive, and then reboot, then the image is
gone, etc etc.

So, what i had to do was use the diskettes to install. After that, the ftp
and other sysinst processes worked fine.

 Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com>
To: <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Mop Boot for 5000/240


> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Toru Nishimura wrote:
>
> > > My Decstation 5000/240 has one of the busted proms that can
> > > not boot using tftp.
> >
> > Isn't it an option for you to try dd'ing raw filesystem image to your
> > disk for initial bootstrap?  The file is found in pmax distribution as;
> >
> > installation/diskimage/diskimage.gz
> >
> > Tohru Nishimura
> >
>
> Thats what I do, works like a charm. First unzip the file, then dd
> it onto any small SCSI drive (the unzipped install image is only 2M)  You
> can dd the image to actual drive you are going to use but if anything goes
> wrong during the install, you may have to re-do the diskimage dd, so I
> normally just use a small helper drive.
>
> I just installed 1.5 onto a Maxine (and an DEC 3000/300) this way.
> I have a small SCSI drive (RZ24) in an external case just for this use.
> Once sysinst is running I usually use ftp to a local machine to complete
> the install. I have done netboot installs, but if you have a helper
> machine with a SCSI interface, the diskimage system is simpler (IMHO)
>
>
>
> Peter Wallace
>
>
>