Subject: Re: CDROM install
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Volker Schmidt <volker@Illuminatus.MZ.Rhein-Main.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1997 21:31:17
In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.970224125814.22534I-100000@tachyon.mono.org>,
David Brownlee <david@mono.org> wrote:
: 	Assuming linux uses SunOS compatible disklabels (if it doesn't
: 	then the prom would complain when you tried to boot, so thats
: 	probably a safe bet :) you should be able to partition the
: 	drive under linux, copy the miniroot to the swap partition, and
: 	just go from there...

Confirmed. I did it initially that way. Another solution is to
grab that floppy combo from ftp.NetBSD.org. There were enough
tools to partition, label and download the miniroot.

--volker
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