Subject: Re: I.B.iM. part deux: diskless rocks!
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/19/1999 08:47:35
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> Thanks to Mitch Spector's iMac booting web page, I now have a pure diskless
> setup working for this 333mhz grape iMac. (Yes, it does appear to work with
> the 333mhz version!). Of course, some comments...
>
> 1. mountd and nfsd are presumed to appear in /sbin, but on i386/1.4.1 I found
> them in /usr/sbin.
What makes this presumption? They should be in usr/sbin..
> 2. I edited root/etc/ttys and changed the vt100's to vt220's so I wouldn't
> have to type it seperately for each login.
I think vt100 is supposed to work..
> 4. Don't seem to be having the "infinite repeat" problem on this machine. good
>
> 5. If I hold down the N key on powerup, the first thing I see is the NetBSD
> dmesg in "Sun console font"; however when it gets to mounting the
> root device, it finds nothing and prompts for a root device BUT the
> keyboard is dead so I have to power-cycle it. It looks like we depend
> on some console/keyboard initialization that happens when you use the
> OpenFirmware command line to boot the kernel.
Yep. It was part of the goo to get the B&W to even boot.
> 6. If I try 'startx' with slightly modified skel startup scripts, I get:
This is a 1.4.1 or a -current kernel? This is exactly what I see on my
B&W in current. I didn't know 1.4.1 had been zapped..
Take care,
Bill