Whoops, one last question, as I download the 20000606 snapshot, what should I use
for a boot floppy? Should I use an older bootfloppy.fs image or something else? I
see ofwboot.elf in the snapshot directory but I'm not sure what to do with it.
What should I use?
Best Regards,
Adam Russell

Adam Russell wrote:

> 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