Not to advertise my own site, but more up to date version is located at
http://restorecd.homeunix.org/NetBSD/restorecd-howto.html. I will try to 
get around and submit the diffs to the main netbsd site.

Thanks,
Alex


David Albert wrote:
> A new install CD would be fantastic...
> I think these are the instructions for building one:
> http://netbsd.expertlan.hu/Ports/cobalt/restorecd-howto.html
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org] On
> Behalf Of Andreas Schaefer
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:52 PM
> To: port-cobalt@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: Restore CD 2.0-1 may still have issue for some install ***
> Feedbackplease ***
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org]
>>On
>>Behalf Of Izumi Tsutsui
>>Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:42 AM
>>To: port-cobalt@netbsd.org
>>Cc: tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
>>Subject: Re: Restore CD 2.0-1 may still have issue for some install ***
>>Feedbackplease ***
>>
>>In article <422FF0AC.7070808@presscom.net>
>>daniel@presscom.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
>>>wd0 at atabus0 drive 0INTRF
>>>panic: siop_intr: I shouldn't be there !
>>>Stopped at      0x801b5808:     jr      ra
>>>                 bdslot: nop
>>
>>It's known problem, try this patch:
>>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2005/02/26/0000.html
> 
> 
> (Sorry for this long reply)
> 
> Concerning the scsibus0 problem i came around this issue in 
> a very special way.
> 
> After trying Restore CD 2.0.1 with no luck i set up a virtual 
> machine using vmware.
> 
> It runs NetBSD 2.0-CURRENT as of May 14 2005.
> 
> Within this vmware i did a cross compile for the port coablt 
> with success. It took only two and a half hours. (On a raq 
> doing this it takes more than 48 hours). Finally i had a cross 
> compiled cobalt 2.0-CURRENT kernel, base.tgz, man.tgz, ...
> 
> Never did this before and it was fairly straight and easy.
> 
> After this i copied over the restore cd into a subdir of the 
> vmware machine. 
> 
> Setting up dhcp and nfs-server to allow a netboot of the 
> raq from the vmware machine and replacing the original 
> kernel files and packages (base.tgz, man.tgz, ...) of the 
> restore cd tree with the cross compiled version of May 14.
> 
> So a netbooting raq is getting the install dir of the restore 
> cd as it's NFS-root. After netbooting the raq every thing went 
> fine. No scsi problem and a CURRENT kernel and world. ;-)
> 
> There was also another issue with kernel messages 
> "pmap_unwire: wiring ... " related to paging that was gone 
> with the version -CURRENT of May 14.
> 
> If someone is interrested in the vmware machine it is 1.2 GB 
> in size as a compressed rar. Send me a mail and i can give a 
> link to it to download.
> With a trial key of vmware 4.5 workstation this should be no problem.
> 
> Somewhere on the web there was a guide how to make your 
> own restore cd. Maybe i can make a "new" restore cd from the 
> tree of the vmware files that contain 2.0-CURRENT as of May 14.
> Anybody interessted in?
> 
> Greetings
> Andreas
> 
> 
>>---
>>Izumi Tsutsui
>>
> 
>