Ok, my decstation is now running NetBSD/pmax. Here are some notes about the
installation process:

- The miniroot seems to comes from a dd if=/dev/rrz?a. So it contains
  (or should contains) the disklabel and boot blocks, and should be installed
  at the beginning of the 'c' partition. So there is 2 solutions
  to install it: 'dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rrz?c' and then install the disklabel
  				and boot blocks; or
				install the boot blocks and disklabel , and then
				'dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rrz?c skip=16 seek=16'.
  The 'dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rrz?c seek=16' is definitively wrong.
  Both worked for me (from Ultrix and NetBSD/i386, with a hacked disklabel
  program), and the install page on www.netbsd.org should be corrected.
- the kernel from the miniroot boot fine on my 2100, but the console (B/W)
  becomes unreadable as soon as the kernel is started, it prints some
  strange characters in black on a white background. Have anyone else
  seen this ? The same kernel works fine on my 5000/200.

About the miniroot install: since the miniroot contains the space of
disklabel and boot blocs, it would be fine if it really contained them
(this is not the case yet), which avoid the need of a disklabel program
to install the boot blocks. So I've dd'ed my boot partition, which I used
to install NetBSD. It is available via anonymous ftp from lix.polytechnique.fr,
in /pub/NetBSD/pmax. The only thing to do to install is 'dd if=miniroot
of=/dev/rrz?c' from any machine/OS. Should be even possible from DOS
with a kind of 'rawrite' for scsi devices.

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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