Verily did Jonathan D Woytek write:

> I actually did mine per the instructions on the website..  I had two disks
> in the same machine, so I used the ultrix on the one disk to disklabel and
> dd the miniroot onto that, and then I could boot the miniroot to label the
> ultrix disk.  Finally, I nfs-mounted a directory on another machine from
> which I could grab the tarballs.  This approach wasn't specifically
> mentioned in the web docs, but it worked.  The biggest problem I
> encountered was the whole labelling shmere at the beginning--I ended up
> getting the source for the disklabel program, which happened to include a
> prototype file for creating a disklabel.  Then everything was cool.  :)

I have some questions:

(1) Has a miniroot with a usable (read: has ftp(1)) /usr been created with
    -current?
(2) Does booting from swap work yet?  (NetBSD/sparc can do this now, fyi).
(3) Is there going to be an ascii representation of the install instructions
    for the 1.3 release?  Using html for install documentation is painful
    (for the person doing the install).
(3a) The syntax to specify the boot drive on a DS3100 is
     "boot -f rz(0,#,0)<kernel>" (where <kernel> is the name of the kernel
     that you want to load).  This is omitted from the current incantation
     of the install instructions on the web.
(4) Has anyone determined the sequence of events required to make a boot
    tape on the tk50 drive?  Those with a one-system,one-drive,with-a-tape-
    drive setup would most likely jump for joy.

I'm about to do an install on my DS3100, and noticed a few items in/about the
install docs.  Fortunately, I have two drives for it, so my install is going
to be relatively easy (as J. Woytek mentioned above).

-- Rob
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