On Sat, 12 May 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2001, John wrote:
> 
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> 
> > Furthermore, is the disklabel compatible with any other NetBSD systems?
> > It'd be easy for me to set up a NetBSD install using an already running
> > system. Or would it?
> 
> I don't know on this one.  It's a good question though.  The VAX is a
> little-endian architecture so you'd probably want to go for a similiarly
> endianed arch to test the disklabel stuff.  NetBSD does support
> endian-independent filesystem access, but I believe there's some overhead
> in this.

You might want to take a look at the information on making a bootable
CDROM.  <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html>  It covers making a
hybrid disc that's bootable on {most,all} hardware that supports it, from
whatever platform you are running on.  It implys that compiling the VAX
toolchain on your host system will produce executables that will Just Work.

> 
> -brian.

Bob