Thanks for you help Chris and Andreas. The netboot seemed to work, I must
have that boot loader problem you mentioned Chris. Because it hangs when I
start it up and just says "Starting Up" forever.

As soon as I can get a serial cable, I will let you know how it goes.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:christopher.d.schultz@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:40 PM
To: Joe Pribele
Subject: Re: installation problem


Joe,

> Ok I have Qube 2, when I tried to install NetBSD I did the net boot and it
> hung on me. Now it won't boot at all.

How much memory do you have? If you installed NetBSD 1.6.1 and have only
16 MB of memory, you'll need to install a different boot loader to get
it to boot itself.

Alternatively, you can hook up a serial cable to it and manually invoke
the boot loader from the boot menu.

> If I pull the hard drive out and hook to my pc( the only other computer I
> have ), is there a way I could format the drive and either make the disk
net
> bootable again or fully install the os with just the restore cd ?

You should be able to netboot the machine no matter what. Is it really
no longer able to even net boot? :(

-chris