* On 2004-12-12 at 00:57 GMT, Brian McKerr wrote:

> Ended up using solaris and disksuite as I needed the thing up and
> running in a hurry. Real pity as I wanted to use NetBSD and was
> really impressed with the sparc64 support.

Yes, I'm pondering the same, I'm a huge huge fan of disksuite.

> I did heard someone mention that you need a seperate ffs partition
> *not* on the raid device. But I'm not sure if that's valid given
> that, as you mentioned Jonathon, that we were able to boot from the
> raid device with only the bootblocks on the initial setup device.

I think I saw that too, but it seems bogus given others have said that
the exact procedures described in the NetBSD guide work fine, and they
mention nothing of having the separate partition (which would be a
pain, and remove the entire point of mirroring the bootable partition).

Thanks,

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Jonathan Perkin                                     The NetBSD Project
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