So I'm messing with netbsd.PCCONS.ecoff.gz and netbsd.COMCONS.ecoff.gz.
They have to be extracted right? Well when I extract them in winzip
they're too big for a floppy. The PCCONS creates a netbsd.GENERIC.ecoff at
2905 KB, the COMCONS makes a netbsd.ecoff at 1809 KB. They are both ECOFF
file type. Again I'm doing this on a Win2000 box.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michael 'Maki' Kato wrote:

> Oh, you needn't rawwrite it.  The arc should be able to read FAT floppies,
> so you want to just dos copy the file onto a floppy.
> 
> ....maki....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kbloom [mailto:kbloom@winternet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:04 PM
> To: 'port-arc@netbsd.org'
> Subject: Re: NEC RiscServer 2200
> 
> 
> So I tried what Warner and Maki described below on the RiscServer. Ftp-ed a
> mips ecoff .gz
> image down on a Win2000 box; put it on a floppy using rawrite; stuck it in
> the RServer,
> booted to the prompt; did 'run program' and typed arc path to flopppy;
> system then
> complained that it didn't recognize file system. I don't think I'm doing
> anything stupid
> on the dload...use bin etc. Rawrite doesn't complain and says successful.
> The RiscServer's
> floppy is lighting up and trying to read. If you're trying an image that
> isn't right is
> the disk just unreadable like that? Any ideas?
> 
> Sorry if I'm being vague/dense as I'm not sitting in front of the box at the
> moment. I
> have access to one 'nix box, but it doesn't have a 3.5 floppy or cd...it is
> networked
> though.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > In message <13CDDE6A53DBD311BC3200508B6F0C48E9FDD6@ROVER> "Michael 'Maki'
> Kato" writes:
> > : I don't have a RiscServer so, I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I did
> for
> > : my Olivetti M700-10.
> > :
> > : Found/made a kernel that boots and that can see the scsi bus.  Put the
> > : kernel on a floppy and booted from the arc prompt with something like
> > :
> > : multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\netbsd
> > :
> > : You may be able to boot elf images, or you may need coff image like me.
> >
> > You will almost certainly need ECOFF.  That's the spec for the boot
> > loader in the ROMs on these machines.  I'm not aware of any machine
> > that will do the right thing.
> >
> > : Once I verified that I had a good kernel, I connected a zip disk, and
> make a
> > : NetBSD partition on the zip disk using a NetBSD/i386 machine, copied the
> > : snapshot onto the zip, and specified the zip disk as my root
> partition(after
> > : booting with floppy)
> > :
> > : >From there, I disklabel'd the internal scsi drive after fdisk, and
> mkfs, and
> > : unzipped the snapshot into the internal disk.
> > :
> > : I have a dos partition on my internal drive, and I now have
> > :
> > : scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\netbsd
> > :
> > : as my default boot device.
> > :
> > : I suppose I could have connected the scsi disk to my NetBSD/i386 box,
> and
> > : created the partitions directly there, copied the snapshot, and then
> move
> > : the disk to the ARC box.  I ended up doing alot of back and forth stuff,
> so
> > : I used zip.  Worked well for me.
> > :
> > : Hope this is of some help.
> >
> > Or you could blurn a cdrom and install off of cd:...
> >
> > Warner
>