Hi Frank,

I'm wrestling with making a self booting CD myself.

Here are some of my random weird unformatted notes on the problem.


To install software:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

/usr/bsdsrc/cdrom/source/sets/pkgsrc.tgz

# Enable the hooks used for initializing the root memory-disk.
options   MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS 
options   MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT # force root on memory disk
options   MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=1  # with userspace memory disk support
options   MINIROOTSIZE=46080  # spc24MB.fs size of memory disk, in
blocks

I ran into problems because I made the ramdisk too big for the amount
of memory I had.

Links:
http://members.nbci.com/cattaghia/Tuts/boot.html
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0101/msg01167.html
http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/handbook.html
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/finish.html
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~tfsmiles/projects/netbsd/partitioning.html
http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/netbsd.html
http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-misc.html

bash is indeed available on netbsd and I'm running it.  Yay!

  Larry

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:25:24AM +0100, Frank Kartest wrote:
> Hello NetBSD i386 Fans i´m new in NetBSD an i have got some questions:
> 
> 1.) How are the partions mappings under NetBSD???
>      (seconde partion on the first controller is not wd0b ??))
> 
> 2.) Can anybody tell me a site where i can learn how do do my own self
> booting CD. The default Boot-CD does not provide multi-user acess and i can
> not use my programs (because of the libary), i also need a compiler.
> 
> 3.) How i can burn CD´s under NetBSD i have compiled cdrecord and the tools
> but cdrecord -scanbus tells me that there is no scsi-bus avaible (also i
> don´t have a scsi-bus but is it possible to use ide-burner (scsi-ide
> emulation))
> 
> 4.) I´m moved from Li*** to NetBSD now i´m wondering if something like bash
> does exist under NetBSD (i miss the extensions like tab full path and cursor
> up last comand ...)
> 
> 
> Thanx to all people which answer to this posting!!!
> 
> 
> 
> 

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