if you can burn CDs and want a bootable NetBSD CD, your best bet is to 
build a ufs filesystem containing a live NetBSD system, make the disk 
bootable and configure things like fstab properly on it, and them dump 
the whoel disk device to a file and burn that file right on to the CD. 
A VAXstation will be capable of booting it. Booting an iso9660 filesystem 
is NOT gonna happen. Unless you put your own boot blocks that could then 
not look through the ufs for 'boot' but instead perhaps either have its 
location hard-coded (sinceits a CD and all its not liek its ever gonna 
change) andmake sure _it_ can load the kernel wihtout findinfg it in a 
ufs, and then make sure the kernel can load iso9660 filesystems for its 
root and so on, andmake sure it doesnt need to swap. one thing to pay 
attention to when burning the CD: 512b sectors!!!!! 

happy hacking,
isildur

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Sprag Johnson wrote:

> Are there any NetBSD/VAX CDs that can be booted from, and can I use any
> SCSI CDROM drive?  I can burn a CD if an ISO image is available....
> 
> I recently obtained several vaxstations (none with tape drives, one with
> an RX33 which always tells me its offline) and I'd like to put NetBSD
> onto them....
> 
> Brian Wheeler
> bdwheele@indiana.edu
>