On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 23:39:41 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in replacing
> the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor because
> it's available in France.
> 
> What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?

I have USL-5P (with the system on the CF card and no built-in
storage).  I've prepared the CF on i386 machine and put it in place of
the stock CF with Linux.

Prepared means:

. fdisk
. disklabel
. newfs
. untar sets
. installboot
. tweak few files in /etc (fstab, rc.conf)

You will also need to make a serail console cable:

    http://www.mizore.jp/wiki/index.php?LANDISK%2Fserial-console

SY, Uwe
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