Subject: Re: NetBSD on a Compaq Aero Subnotebook
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/05/1996 17:16:49
On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Curt Sampson writes
in message <Pine.NEB.3.91.960104173552.16293G-100000@cynic.portal.ca>:
> Has anyone gotten NetBSD to work on a Compaq Aero subnotebook?
I had installed NetBSD 1.0A (around 95 Nov) on Aero 4/25.
At that time, it was needed to specify type of floppy
explicitly to use 1.44Mb floppy, because auto detection by
reading RTC fails on Aero (even though bios setup can detect
it. Because of PCMCIA?).
So I had to use /dev/fd0b where /dev/fd0a is used. There is 2
such place before copying mini root to hard disk; specify boot
device as fd(0,b) and modify argument for mount -u to
/dev/fd0b in the `install' script (yes, another machine is
needed to do this).
Once mini root is copied to hard disk, I used SLIP to finish
the installation. So I don't know whether there needs more
work with using floppy disk, sorry. (make device minir of
fd0a to that of fd0b?)
enami