Subject: Re: [Q] DS3100 installation? (was: [Q] disklabel error)
To: Reini (Reinhold Huber) <Reinhold.Huber@Fachschaften.TU-Muenchen.DE>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/16/1997 10:55:22
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Reini (Reinhold Huber) wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This is for the case your i386 has SCSI.
> 
> > > At 10:03 AM 10/15/97 +0900, you wrote:
> > > >> Hi, all: I'm trying install NetBSD onto a DS3100 (24MB RAM), and am 
>        using a
> > > >> i386 NetBSD machine as my "helper."
> 
> Don't get too confused and do the following:
> * Get yourself the file NetBSD/arch/pmax/32M-diskimage.gz
> * Unzip it our build a pipeline to dd which gunzips it for you.
> * dd that onto the disk you want to boot your 3100 first. It is very much 
>   easier if you have two disks, but let's boot the machine first :)
>   - Connect the boot harddisk to your i386 and find out its device.
>   - type 
> 
>      dd if=32M-diskimage of=sdXc
> 
>     where X stands for the disk you want to use to boot the pmax

These instructions are very good. They should get around the disklabel
problems you had.

My only comment is that you should use sdXd on the i386. For port-i386,
partition "d" is the full disk, not "c" as on most other ports.

Take care,

Bill