<From gunnar@bitcon.no  Thu Aug 14 07:54:39 1997

<Not really, it's in section 3.16 of the FAQ.

Well I'll take all the fluff out of that sections that applies to this and:

#mount /dev/ra0a /mnt

#mount /dev/ra0f /mnt/usr  /* I have the user partition as ra0f */

#cp /gennetbsd /mnt/netbsd   /* that what's written, I assume that was one  
                             of many typos and /Gennnetbsd is /netbsd */

#cp /boot /mnt/boot

All done and seems to have been error free.

The text has this whole thing about using a dec mips to gunzip the the files 
first... to make the tar tape.  I can't, this is currently the only 
useful(*?*) unix boxen I have.  

* brief review here.  
-I do have a pro350 with venix... not useful at this point as it does 
 not have tape and gunzip is not on it.
-somewhere along the line I messed up my vax vms 5.4 disk and that's
 unavailable and will take a major rebuild.  It did not have gunzip on it.
-I do have a vs2k with ultrix 4.2 on it but I have no idea how to get it
 to talk to the TQK50/tk50 attached.  I don't think it has gunzip on it
 either.
-I do have a another microvax I can take the vs2k disk to and circumvent
 and hardware issues of hooking the tk50 to but... there is that issue of
 gunzip.

So I have a tape with bin.tar.gz and ect.tar.gz!  In essence that
text says do majik here and then...

#cd  /mnt
#tar --unlink -xpvf /dev/nrmt8

It assumes I have something I dont a tape with only tar files not gzipped
tarfiles.  My foolish assumption is that when I got to this point enough of 
netbsd would be there to handle this detail.

Also I still am dependent on ra0b as root.  How do I get the root on ra0a?
This would allow swapping to be started and also normal access to all the 
partitions.

The rest of the faq goes on about using nfs and making tapes by smoke and 
mirrors.  The nfs option is only remotely possible as now I have to build a 
viable net from the only system that can FTP off the internet, my PC dosbox.
I have a major design problem with this... it's call lumping untested and 
new hardware/software onto a problem thereby increasing the number of 
variables for why it doesn't work.  So far I've had to build a system to 
copy floppies across different hardware and filesystems and it' has not 
been close to error free.  So whenever a step doesn't work it means was 
netBSD is bad or the transmission of that piece. If it is was not netBSD 
then I have to debug the stream of transmission as well. 


Allison