Jeez, if I don't get this thing booting tomorrow I'll be damned. Great
ideas from
you guys. So the bios is limited to 8.3 too. I'm betting that is my
whole problem.
I burned the cd using Joliet so it probably wasn't recognizing the long
file names.
I also tried copying to c:\ (yes the box has NT 35 upgrd to 4) but still no
success, but again the bios probably wasn't recog the long filename? I
might go
ahead and try OpenBSD if its easier? I'm not particular to flavor and
I'm a
relative newbie more familiar with NT.

Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <20000727221327.20377.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> Prasad Nuli writes:
> : 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.
>
> I installed NetBSD/hpcmips onto a CF card by extracting the binaries
> onto it after doing the partitioning, etc.  I then made a /etc/fstab
> as well as ran MAKEDEV in /dev.  I also cofnigured rc.conf and I was
> golden.  I've not tried this on NetBSD/arc, but think it would work
> there also.
>
> BTW, thanks for the poitners.  I've long since forgotten about the NT
> disks that I have gathering dust in the corner.
>
> Warner