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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netbooting NetBSD/SPARC from FreeBSD-box
Date: 25 Sep 1996 20:58:20 GMT
Organization: XCIV
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References: <51s4j3$2n0@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>
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In article <slrn54hso6.hf7.edwinm@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>,
edwinm@charm.il.ft.hse.nl (Edwin Mons) writes:
> Thanks for all your replies. I found out NetBSD 1.2 solved the problem
> for me by providing a miniroot I could write over my swap-partition.
>
> The fact that I am writing this message from my Sun says enough.
Funny story of the day:
Installing NetBSD/sparc today I tried a number of times to dd the miniroot
to the swap partition, but when rebooting the box it just wouldn't boot
off the miniroot on swap. (I had installed the previous 1.2 sparc snapshot
ok so I was rather puzzled by this).
(As a side note the latest 1.2 miniroot seems to be broken in that it
doesn't have the md_makerootwritable() function so the install script
bombs out, 'mount -o rw /dev/rsd0b /' and restart install to fix).
dd if=miniroot-12.fs of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync
I tried the dd about 3 times and then I finally twigged, I was installing
it on a Sol 2.5 box. In the back of my mind I knew there was a reason
why I shouldn't be cut 'n' pasting the dd line out of the INSTALL doc
but I didn't realise why.
Then I twigged, after removing the 5Mb file from /dev I tried again with
the correct dd line and hey presto. :)
-Paul-
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