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From: bouyer@chassiron.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: install NetBSD on pmax
Date: 18 Feb 1996 15:52:05 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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Eric McWhorter (ericm@math.montana.edu) wrote:
> I've attempted to install NetBSD on a decstation with
> no success.
> 
> I've tried numerous permutations of the directions, but what
> I think should have worked was:
> 
> I put the disk on a decstation 5000/120 running ULTRIX 4.3.
> I compiled disklabel with gcc 2.5.8, moved bootrz and rzboot
> to /usr/mdec and ran disklabel as such:
> 
> ./disklabel -B /dev/rrz3c
>   (some warning about no disk label)
> ./disklabel -B -R /dev/rrz3c rz24
> 
> Now, if I run ./disklabel -r /dev/rrz3c it looks good.  I then
> did the dd:
> 
> dd if=./miniroot of=/dev/rrz3c seek=16

The install guide is wrong. The right command is:
dd if=./miniroot of=/dev/rrz3c seek=16 skip=16
(you can also do :dd if=./miniroot of=/dev/rrz3c before labelling the disk).
This is because the miniroot also contains the 8k for disklabel+boot blocks.

> 
> the disklabel is still in tact.  So, I didn't clobber it.
> 
> However, the resultant disk is NOT bootable on a decstation 
> 5000/133 or a 2100.  Anyone get this beast to work?

Yes.


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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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