On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, D. J. Vanecek wrote:

> > At 10:03 AM 10/15/97 +0900, you wrote:
> > So I don't waste any more time on this now seemingly impossible task, how
> > would *you* (the PMAX community) install NetBSD on a formerly diskless
> > DS3100 (now with a Seagate ST1480 HD), given that a stand-alone i386 NetBSD
> > machine is your only available helper? Is it even ppossible under these
> > circumstances?
> 
> Well, I'm not a NetBSD pmax user, (I run OpenBSD on my pmaxes), but my
> two-cents worth is to get ahold of the pmax boot blocks and install them
> explicitly with the 386bsd disklabel.  They ought to exist in the
> miniroot or 32MB fs or whatever you have for the pmax NetBSD distribution.
> THis might still suck, or it might produce a bootable disklabel, that
> you could then relabel from the pmax, and install again. 

[snip]

> Another alternative is t not use disklabel at all, but to use
> dd to write to the raw disk. Is this the way the 32MB fs is installed on
> NetBSD? The NetBSD install doc for the pmax has some stuff about
> "quick and dirty hacks" to get a viable disklabel. Go over them.

This solution sounds the most sensable. You'll get a system partitioned as
was the 32 MB source, but it should work. w/o much hassle.

Take care,

Bill