In <URL:news:local.netbsd> on Mon 21 May, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> On Sunday 20 May 2001  5:47 pm, David Forbes wrote:
> > > I bought a pair of CDs at the Wakefield show yesterday. I have copied
> > > !BtNetBSD (v2.92 14 Feb 2001) into a new NetBSD directory with the misc
> > > and unixfs directories in the same NetBSD directory. When I drag the
> > > RiscPC install kernel (NETBSD_RPCINST.GZ dated 17 May 2001 on the CD)
> > > from the CD
> >
> > I'm not sure, because I haven't tried this recently: I think you might
> > have to unzip the kernel first?  I seem to remember that there was a RISC
> > OS !Gzip application years ago that would do the trick.
> 
> Yes, seems I missed that when checking the CD. The images are compressed,
> so  they do need to be uncompressed, I think sparkplug might be capable of
> doing  so.  Otherwise gzip should be able to:
> http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~arcangel/files/ should work.
> 
> What's the best way to disemminate this info?  CSA.announce?
> 

In <URL:news:local.netbsd> on Mon 21 May, Dave Daniels wrote:
> The only thing I would say it that sysinst seems to leave you with
> 'rc_configured' in /etc/rc.conf set up as 'rc_configured=NO'. I think that
> you will find that the learning curve has suddenly become a vertical wall
> if you are not sure how to progress after you reboot as you end up having
> to mount things by hand before you can edit rc.conf.
> 

Do I also need to unzip the RAMdisc image? (I guess from Dave Daniels'
response maybe not). Where should the unzipped files reside on the hard disc
(relative to the bootloader) to use them succesfully?

Any hints welcomed before I find myself with a NetBSD system I can do nothing
with! Thanks for the warning Dave.

Anthony Hilton

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