>The two ways that I currently believe work are:
>
>	(1) dd the miniroot onto the beginning of the disk, and then
>	    use the Ultrix disklabel command to create a label with the
>	    a partition starting at zero and at least enough bytes long
>	    to hold the miniroot.
>or,
>	(2) disklabel the disk with partition a starting at an offset of
>	    sixteen from the beginning of the disk, and then dd the
>	    miniroot onto the disk with skip=16.
>
>Both of these have been reported to work fairly recently, although I
>have to admit that I haven't ever booted NetBSD/pmax this way.

I'm going to try
	(3) partition the drive on a i386 box, put pmax boot blocks
	    and binaries on it, then ram it back into the decstation.

I'll let you know if it works  ;)

--Michael

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