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From: bwheeler@lssec.bt.co.uk (Ben/Jammin Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Sparc Installation
Date: 15 Nov 1995 15:19:33 GMT
Organization: BT, Churchill Engineering Centre
Lines: 31
Sender: bwheeler@hektor (Ben/Jammin Wheeler)
Message-ID: <48d0e5$apq@sol.lssec.bt.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hektor.lssec.bt.co.uk
Keywords: netbsd, sparc, install

I'm trying to install NetBSD-1.0 on a hitherto blank external disk of a
Sparcstation 2.
The tree is all installed, the kernel is there, everything's hunkydory up to the
final stage
The documentation for making the disk bootable in the
NetBSD installation guide seems to only be valid for SunOS 4?
Unfortunately my starting point is Sloaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4), which
doesn't appear to have a /boot program to install using installboot(1m). A look
at the installboot manpage tells me the program seems to have changed
unrecognizably from the syntax outlined in the installation text file, which says

sunos # cp /boot /mnt/boot
sunos # /usr/mdec/installboot -vlt /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/bootsd /dev/rsd2a

Nowadays, Sloaris has files called /ufsboot and /hsfsboot, but the installboot
manpage only mentions /usr/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk. I tried using that, and copying
/ufsboot to /mnt/boot, and copying .../bootblk to /mnt/boot (where /mnt is the
NetBSD root partition), and all return Boot load failed\nInvalid instruction.

Can someone enlighten me as to the correct way to prime the disk to boot netbsd
from Sloaris 2.4, or am I going to have to go down the NFS route?

Cheers
...jamm!n <jammin@umist.ac.uk>
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