On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:13:45 -0800 (PST), Gordon Zaft
<gordonzaft@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The docs for netbooting on this page:
> 
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.vax.html
> 
> Say to download netbsd.ram.gz from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.3/vax/installation/netboot.
>  They don't reference 1.6, and the corresponding
> directory in 1.6 has an install.ram.gz but no
> netbsd.ram.gz.  What's the scoop?   How do I do this?

I did this once, so I'm an expert, right?  

If you're trying to install NetBSD on your VAX's local disk, you put that
install.ram in your export NFS root partition, named "netbsd".  It's the
"install kernel", the one that starts sysinstall.

$ cd /export/vax/root/ && ls -l install.ram netbsd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2403576 Jan  9 14:52 install.ram
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2403576 Jan  9 14:55 netbsd

The docs are out of date, that's acknowledged.  No one's bellied up to the
keyboard to fix it.  

--jkl