I dont know the present state of the software you booted from. If the video
driver is working then you can do a netinstall using another netbsd machine
and then do the partition of the drives and unzip the tgzs and you should be
on your way to use the system. You might need  PCCONS for the box.

On Image RISC station I am booted using  PCCONS and installed.It is tedious
but worked. I had to do a net install to install on that box. There are some
bugs in 1.5_X release candidate. Greg and me are working on fixing it and do
a good build for the ARC Image Platform.

I am working on the SYSINSTALL for the platform now. I'll know in the next
couple of days how it is working. I'll keep you posted.

Prasad Nuli

-----Original Message-----
From: port-arc-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-arc-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Kurt Bloom
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 11:49 AM
To: port-arc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: NEC RiscServer 2200



So I hooked up the serial box, used hyprtrm, booted the COMCONS ecoff
kernel-and it worked. Now I'm sitting at a root device: prompt. So this
kernel will work for me, I assume. Now I suppose I need to partition my
drive for unix and boot to the kernel again. I think I'm missing a little
of the theory here though. Once I have my drive partitioned properly and
I'm sitting at this prompt, how do you get to the point of doing away with
the serial hoohaw...and getting just a regular unix boot? Having the
kernel boot does not imply that unix is "installed", I need to get the
snapshot on the machine? I need to look back at something Warner, Maki or
Prasad wrote earlier about this.

Kurt


On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200007281451736.SM00298@digitalcommute.com> "Maki" writes:
> : Then you get into the kernel stuff by reading some code and asking
> : more questions.  Chances are, you wouldn't have to write a driver from
> : scratch, just have to make sure the devices are initialized and
> : detected correctly.  It's time consuming, but interesting and
> : educational to say the least.
>
> Yes.  Also, if you make changes that we need to include in our future
> kernel builds, please send us the patches...
>
> Warner
>