Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Colin Raven wrote:
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>> Right now stuff is working...errmmmm...'well enough' but I wondered 
>> if anyone could share their thoughts on the matter.
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> First issue you'll encounter in such a scenario would be different 
> schemes for disk partitioning and booting. Funny enough, the cobalt 
> machines use a DOS MBR scheme just as i386, so no sweat there. For 
> booting, you'll need a linux (mbr) partition, which contains the 
> (netbsd) kernel,with the right name and an ext2fs on it (because the 
> cobalt "BIOS" cannot read anything else)

eeeeuuuuwwww, therein is the 'small details' that would prolly lill me: 
i.e. dos mbr + linux mbr w/ an appropriately named (and sized) kernel

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> After that, you can proceed pretty much as usual, just 
> extract/cross-build the right binaries.

also death - cross-building?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I now have something to think about 
and read up on.

-Colin

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