On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jack Cate wrote:

> Do I need to purchase a disk/hd for the z50 in order to run netbsd on it? 

No.  But in the current state of development you need to be prepared for
quite some hackery to get NetBSD running on the z50.  The first requirement is
that you have a CompactFlash with a small FAT partition for pbsdboot.exe and
the kernel and a larger partition formatted with FFS.  This basically means
that standalone installation is not possible as you cannot safely repartition
your Compact Flash card from within WinCE or NetBSD sysinst.

The only way which worked for me (once) was to repartition the CF card using
my Win98 notebook and installing NetBSD using NetBSD/i386 on the same
notebook.  There may be other ways and your mileage may vary.

I'd say:  Do not try to install the current snapshot unless you understand
how PC partition tables suck and that backups rock. 8)

-Hans