On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 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 The docs are out of date, that's acknowledged.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.

Well, at least not in time for the 1.6.1 RC.  The other thing one needs
to be cognizant of is that you'll have to use the 1.5.3 mopable
bootloader with the 1.6 release.  The bootloader that's included with
1.6 isn't converted to MOP format because the util for converting ELF
binaries into MOP images has a bug.

-brian.