Sounds great!!  I'll undertake the install in the nest day or two and if I run
into any deviations from the standard install or previuosly documented gotchas
I'll let the list know and  write up a Umax install doc on my homepage for
anyone else with one of these machines.
Best Regards,
Adam Russell


Matthew Reilly wrote:

> on 7/18/00 3:35 PM, Adam Russell at adam@rabbitfarm.com wrote:
>
> > I am interested in getting NetBsd on my Umax C600. I see that this can be
> > done, however, I'd like to ask a couple questions first before I jump into
> > the install.
> > From the notes I have read it would appear that it is not possible to boot
> > from the IDE drive, is this still the case? Following from that is it
> > possible to boot from a SCSI drive(provided, I see, that the cdrom drive is
> > disconnected)? Has the cd-rom problem been fixed? Finally, does X work on
> > these machines?
> > Many thanks,
> > Adam Russell
> >
>
> I've booted recent snapshots from both the IDE and SCSI drives on my C500
> with the CD-ROM connected. It can be a little tricky with the SCSI drive, I
> think I found that System Disk seemed to help but I'm not positive it's not
> just voodoo.
>
> The boot device ata/ATA-Disk@0:0 works for IDE and scsi/sd@0:0 for SCSI
> disks. I've never put in a boot-file, sometimes it will complain that it
> "can't use device path" or something similar but boots anyway.
>
> I've never used X on the box (it's a server) so I don't know about that.
>
> Let me know if you have any troubles.
>
> cheers,
>
> Matthew