Jonathan Stone said:
> You mean robust instructions for taking a machine running Ultrix and
> getting NetBSD/pmax on it?  I wrote the installation guide off the
> NetBSD/pmax web page as my best shot at installation instructions.  If
> they're not good enough, or not robust enough, please do find your
> own notes,  add them to the material in the Web page, and
> I'll add that in.
> 

I think you means the "http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/pmax-install.html"
page. So the section about "writing the miniroot" is false. As i've explained
here before, the miniroot also contains spaces for the disklabel, so the
rigth command is:
dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rD#P
*BEFORE* writing the disklabel, or
dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rD#P seek=16 skip=16
before or after writing the disklanel. 

But i think it would be cool if we had the boot bloks and a dummy disklabel
in the miniroot, so whe could just do 'dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rD#P' to have
a bootable disk. 

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