On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > Yes, I think you can try that. Running installboot on the boot.fs using
> > > the 1.5.3 ofwboot (not not .xcf since that's not what installlboot wants)
> > > should be fine.
> >
> > You lost me here. I am not sure what installboot is. Nor am I sure how to
> > edit the filesystem on the boot.fs image (or floppy). I don't even know
> > what type of filesystem that is (ffs?)
>
> installboot is a program that installs a variant of ofwboot and the bootxx
> program as a "boot driver". As part of its (current) behavior it wipes any
> existing apple partition map, and it builds the minimum map needed to get
> bootxx loaded as a driver. bootxx then loads ofwboot, the memory image of
> ofwboot.xcf.
>
> The file system on the boot floppy is ffs. Installboot knows enough to
> tell bootxx where to find ofwboot (it has a hard-coded set of block
> numbers to look at).

Interesting....

>
> > I was going to try the 1.5.3 ofwboot.xcf on a DOS floppy with the 1.6
> > netbsd.INSTALL.gz kernel.
>
> That should work, if it all fits.
>
> > I'll let you know if this works! (Am about to try it now)
>
> Cool.

As I mentioned, it does work.

>
> > > If you can cross-compile releases, I suspect an entire 1.6 build hacked up
> > > so it uses the 1.5.3 ofwboot/ofwboot.xcf should work fine.
> > >
> >
> > At this point the box has linuxppc on it. So I can't do much netbsd
> > compiling on it... And trying that from a mac68k would be slow...
>
> -current can be cross-compiled from RedHat 7.3 for x86, so linuxppc
> shouldn't be hard, and we can probably get Jason to back-port the changes
> to 1.6.


Hmmm. Well I am wiping this linuxppc box and putting netbsd on it ;-) I do
have a couple other linuxppc boxes, and an x86 linux box. I figure I will
do most of my compiling for macppc netbsd on the macppc netbsd box. (I
normally do that... I never bothered trying to install a cross compiler,
though I have entertained the idea, escpecially for mac68k builds!)


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