Subject: Re: Silly question...
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
List: port-arc
Date: 12/26/2000 14:45:42
In message <Pine.WNT.4.30.0012261622310.-76923-100000@toddvier> Todd Vierling writes:
: Then this needs to be documented in the (as yet nonexistent) NetBSD/arc
: install notes in src/distrib/notes.

KO.  I'll see about updating them.  I need to do a fresh install on my 
machine anyway.

: Also, NetBSD/arc has no ramdisk kernel and/or sysinst.  This makes booting
: from CD-ROM somewhat useless.  (The Wasabi and NetBSD Mission 1.5 CDs, both
: prepared with my tool in src/distrib/cdrom, don't directly boot on arc
: machines because of the lack of a ramdisk installer.)

Ah.  That makes sense.  I gotta order me one of those disks :-).  In
the mean time, I do know that at least one person in the past burned
a cdrom with an OpenBSD/arc root image, booted off of it and mounted
the cdrom as his root image and then kludged his way into a running
system via the well known "Brute Force" approach that many favor, but
is hard to document.  I may try to do this route once I get my wasabi
cdrom.  I had been waiting for the pacakge cdrom, but I've gone ahead
and ordered my plain version and will cope from there :-).

Warner