Subject: Re: NetBSD.ram for NetBSD/sparc 1.5
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/13/2000 14:17:43
Todd Vierling said:

>Let me clarify this statement:  The ramdisk kernels for 1.5_ALPHA* do NOT
>work with many systems, particularly earlier sun4c's, because of the way
>memory is set up on those machines at boot time.
>
>The new layout of the installer consists of a smaller ramdisk kernel with a
>`microroot' which will extract the second boot file into a mfs and chroot to
>that.  You could think of it as a two-stage install bootstrap.

So I would need to set up a boot filesystem using rootfs.tgz in order
to install 1,5 with the software provided?

What is netbsd.ram.aout.gz? My SS1 didn't know what to make of it.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com