Subject: Re: install w/o cable?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 09/29/2001 16:22:53
In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109300116590.12478-100000@rfhpc8317>,
Hubert Feyrer writes:
>On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> I don't have a serial cable, and while I could probably get one, I'd like
>> to try installing NetBSD without one. If I copy the netbsd.gz to
>> /usr/games/.doug and boot it, will it load an nfs filesystem? The kernel
>> config file has "root on ?" and NFS_BOOT_DHCP. So I'm guessing this is
>> sufficent? I just need to setup a filesystem, press the button, and it
>> will work?
>
>I doubt this works.
Err, what he said. IIRC, the default kernel prompted me (via the serial
console) to find the NFS location, although I had a fairly funky DHCP/NFS
setup at the time. In any case, should you mess up anything at all from
setting up /etc/rc.conf to making the devices, you'll really, really want
the ability to chat over that console line...
Good luck either way,
Kevin
kml@patheticgeek.net