Subject: Re: How to install on sparc
To: Mr.nopadon Sae-Han <nopadon@hiss.scb.co.th>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/03/1997 00:17:43
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Mr.nopadon Sae-Han wrote:

> 
>   Yahoo... I can boot NetBSD/sparc with miniroot-13_BETA.fs :)
> and I got root shell promt ( # )
>      I can't find miniroot-13_ALPHA.fs but I pick up BETA and
> work fine...

	Even better - 1.3BETA is just slightly closer to the full 1.3
	release (which is due out in a few weeks).

>     I'm not install it now and I hope it will look like NetBSD/i386
> installation :)

	The installation will vary a little, but once installed they
	are the same OS (the beauty of NetBSD :).One thing to watch is
	that if you repartition a disk, be sure to only use whole
	cylinders in each partition (for compatability with the SunOS
	disklabel needed by the boot prom).

>     I got one problem if I boot with 1.3 BETA version I need install
> with binary 1.3 BETA or not?
> 
	Ideally you should use 1.3BETA binaries, though 1.3ALPHA will
	work fine, and 1.2G & earlier versions will pretty much work...
	(I'd try to got for 1.ALPHA or later).
	
> Thank You So Much,

	Glad to hear its all come together!
	(Sent from a NetBSD/i386 box, next to my NetBSD/sparc box )

		David/abs

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