Subject: Re: Installing 1.5.2 on DECstation 5000/240
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Blaz Zupan <blaz@inlimbo.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/27/2002 10:18:38
> > I was able to mount
> > the miniroot on a FreeBSD box (Intel is little indian), but the kernel
> > is too big to fit on the miniroot,
> Even as .gz? The bootloader should be able to boot .gz images.

Oops, didn't know that, it does fit gzipped. I'll just have to see if it has
to be named "netbsd" or "netbsd.gz". Trying right now...

> Uhhh. Never done miniroot magic. Stop. Wrong. I tweaked the 4.3BSD-Tahoe
> miniroot for my MicroVAX... But that is an other story. ;-) Hmm. I think
> you will need "disklabel -B" / installboot(8) magic. Perhaps you should
> look in the NetBSD source where the miniroot is build when you "make
> release"...

Yeah, I figured I'll have to download the whole source to find that out.