Subject: Re: Getting NetBSD onto an IPC.
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/10/2000 21:42:43
In some email I received from Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no, sie wrote:
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> > How does one get NetBSD onto a Sun IPC these days?  I'm told
> > the floppy driver is broken in -current - the boot.fs's that
> > I've downloaded from snapshots have failed to find the kernel.
> > If I attempt to boot a 1.4.1 or 1.4.2 floppy, it screws up when
> > probing bwtw0 - see PR#10307.  Will a netboot of -current work?

The actual problem with this is, I believe, the ROM version (1.9) is
inadequate to deal with the PCMCIA card.  I've put the card in an SS2
and booted NetBSD without any trouble and booted NetBSD on the IPC in
question (without that card installed) without any problems.  I've
closed that PR.

Daren