On Thu, 3 Aug 95 2:15:27 CDT 
 Bartholomew Niswonger <bniswong@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:

 > Hello, I am getting a hp340 with no disk.  My log term goals are to
 > play with this box, it was cheap, and I want to play with networking,
 > so it seemed like a good idea.  Right now I am trying to figure out
 > how to get a disk and os onto it.  I dont know if it has a floppy
 > drive, but it definately has a scsi port and no hard drive.  

Well, seeing as how it has a SCSI interface (a card, I'm assuming...), if 
you can get a cheap SCSI disk, you're in good shape.  You'll be able to 
compile the `makedisk' utility that's used to install the 1.0 
distribution and dump a disklabel, bootblocks, and root filesystem onto 
the disk.  This works best on a big-endian machine.

 > I am running netbsd on an amiga, so I thought perhaps I could compile
 > the kernel and all on that, and somehow get it into the hp.  The
 > problem is a) how do I do the cross compile?  b) how do I get it into
 > the hp?

Well, cross-compiling is somewhat of a challenge on systems that don't 
share the same object format.  I haven't yet had the opportunity (or the 
need) to cross-compile for the hp300.  Unless you're willing to 
experiment, you'll probably be better off starting with 1.0 and building 
natively.

 > Amiga (68040) w/ IDE drive and floppy running netbsd
 > 	serial, parallel

The Amiga has no SCSI?  That's truly a bummer...

Unfortunately, the hp300 netboot code doesn't work yet ... It's Yet 
Another Item On The TODO List.

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