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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in3.uu.net!132.205.106.4!newsflash.concordia.ca!not-for-mail From: joachim@ECE.Concordia.CA (Joachim Thiemann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install NetBSD on a Sparc? Date: 11 Apr 1997 03:43:35 GMT Organization: ECE - Concordia University Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5ikc17$mnt$1@newsflash.concordia.ca> References: <5ijimt$jd1$1@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: snow-white.ece.concordia.ca NNTP-Posting-User: joachim Keywords: boot, install, floppy, network, netbsd, sparc1+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5794 In article <5ijimt$jd1$1@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>, Jason Mader <jasonq@seas.gwu.edu> wrote: > >I've also tried a similiar thing from my PC running Linux, which I >successfully installed the Apollo version of NetBSD from about a month >ago. I've even tried to write the netbsd kernel to a floppy disk but when >I boot 'b fd()' it says the file loaded has a bad magic number and isn't >executable. The floppy is (IMHO) your easiest way. A kernel on the floppy is not enough, it needs a bootblock+a filesystem. IIRC, bootable floppy images and a install README file can be found at ftp.netbsd.org://pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/install.floppy/ In fact I know coz I just opened up an FTP session :) You can create the floppies from either a DOS box or (if the Apollo has a 1.44M fd) dd if=boot-12A.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=512 on the Apollo, where fd0a should be whatever the 1.44 floppy is. Just be glad you have a floppy coz my install (thanks to the buggy ncr53c9x chip) was on the painful side of things. Joe. -- ------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------------- Joachim Thiemann joachim@ece.concordia.ca done with Computer Engineering http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~joachim/addr.html