It is bit difficult to install on the  NetBSD
comparing to OpenBSD which has a superior installation
program.

As warner suggested try to make a dos partition on the
harddrive. It is probably easier to use WINDOWS NT CD
and use.

At the ARC BIOS prompt you would run the program for
partitiong the drive.
CD:\mips\arcinst
This program helps you to create a dos / fat
partition. you can have upto 2 Gig of the partition.
It is best to make 350-400 Meg and install NT. (
Easier way to do, so you can access that parition
using NT if you need to )

Then copy the file called netbsd.PCCONS.ecoff file to
C:\ Then you have to rename that file to netbsd.eco or
some thing like that. In the arc bios there is file
name limitation as 8.3 from dos world. I use nebsd.eco

Then from the ARC BIOS prompt execute that program
with command

SCSI(0)DISK(0)RDISK(0)PARTITION(1)\netbsd.eco

This will boot the netbsd and brings up to a point
where you can do a net install or cd install or hd
install.

Then if you want to use net install then you would
pick sn0 option.

For this you need to setup another netbsd or unix
machine to do diskless install. This is tedious. But
from then on it is explained on netbsd web page.

It would have been easier if there is a sysinstall
utility for arc-netbsd. Give it a try. I am sure there
are probably other ways to install, none of them are
easier either.

Prasad Nuli





--- Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
> In message
>
<Pine.GSO.4.05.10007271534370.22072-100000@parka.winternet.com>
> Kurt
> Bloom writes: 
> : Just an update of my woes. So I took the
> netbsd.GENERIC.ecoff and the
> : netbsd.ecoff files described below, burned them
> onto a cd, put that in the
> : RiscServer, changed the arc path to the cdrom,
> fired it off and it says:
> : Error: The file or device does not exist, press
> any key to continue
> : 
> : the cdrom shows activity ie lights up, so I'm
> thinking it has to be my
> : ecoff. I'm perplexed that these ecoffs won't fit
> on a floppy. I'm under
> : the understanding that these were designed for
> floppies? So now I think
> : I've screwed the files up somehow in the process
> of downloading them and
> : getting them on the cd? Any ideas?
> 
> Most of my experience with these machines comes from
> being the
> OpenBSD/arc maintainer for years, so things might be
> different for
> NetBSD/arc (my machine runs OpenBSD/arc at the
> mopment, I've not had
> time to make it dual boot).
> 
> The boot kernels will work from any media.  If you
> have NT on the
> system right now, then you must have a FAT partition
> on that disk.
> Your best bet may be to put one or both of these
> kernels onto that FAT
> partition and try to boot from that.  You can
> usually do this by
> picking the "run a program" and specifying
> "c:netbsd.ecoff" as the
> name of the file to run.  At least on my BIOS (rPC44
> from
> Deskstation), that's how I do it to test thigns out.
>  I have a FAT
> partition and a FFS partition, but you get the idea.
> :-)
> 
> Instead of C:, you may need to specify the entire
> path to the drive in
> arc BIOS format.  That might also be your problem
> with the cdrom boot.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites.
http://invites.yahoo.com/