On Sat Jan 20 2001 at 19:12:42 -0500, Michael Ahlers wrote:
> Would anybody mind pointing me to a procedure running through the
> installation of NetBSD on an O2?  I'm not even quite sure what files to
> download or where I should begin.

Here's something from the original NetBSD/sgimips announcement:

---SNIP---
To bootstrap the port, you need to netboot the kernel using the SGI's
ARC firmware, then prepare a second hard disk with NetBSD's FFS and
disklabel. You then tell the kernel to use root/swap on the second
disk. The firmware can't currently boot the kernel from a FFS
filesystem, though, and you'll need to boot that via the net for
now. To start bootstrapping, the following files are needed:

 * Snapshot: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sgimips/snapshot/
 * Kernel:   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sgimips/netbsd.ip32
---SNIP---

But looking at the date of netbsd.ip32, you may be better off taking the
kernel from the more recent snapshot. Note that you need an external PCI
NIC if you want to use nfsroot, as the in-built NIC on the O2 is not yet
supported, although it is being worked on. (and the one working on it
should probably kicked a bit to work harder on it.. *kick* ;)

Booting a kernel from the local disk is also being worked^Wmeditated
upon, as is writing the install documentation. No, sgimips is currently
not for the faint-hearted, but using it is entire possible.

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