Subject: Re: HD size & NWS-3710
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Mauricio <raub@kudria.com>
List: port-newsmips
Date: 01/04/2004 17:02:57
At 06:54 +0900 1/5/04, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>In article <a06002001bc1e372558b4@[10.0.0.10]>
>raub@kudria.com wrote:
>
>>	Which bootdisk to use nowadays?  Can I use
>> 
>>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/newsmips/installation/floppy/boot.fs
>>  or there is a bootdisk that would work happier in my 3710?
>
>NetBSD/newsmips 1.6.1 still has a bug which prevents booting
>on serial console. This bug has been fixed on -current
>and netbsd-1-6 branch, so boot.fs of fothcomming 1.6.2
>should work. You could try 1.6.2_RC3 binaries on releng server:
>ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC3/

	So, you mean to install using releng as the ftp site?

>  > gzip: unknown option -- l
>
>-current sysinst has been quite improved and now it uses
>gzip -l option, but bootdisk for newsmips uses
>src/distrib/utils/x_gzip and it doesn't have -l support
>though now non-GPLed src/usr.bin/gzip does.
>I'll commit the fix the bootdisk to use it later.

	Do let me know when that happens! =)