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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!howland.erols.net!ais.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Help : Installing NetBSD on Sun 4/280 Date: 24 May 1997 10:39:52 -0700 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5m7958$1su@cynic.portal.ca> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970524002437.6715A-100000@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3412 In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970524002437.6715A-100000@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>, G.K. Meier <meierg@ENGR.ORST.EDU> wrote: >a) For netbsd what format do the drives need to be. >b) what do I format them with (how?) You don't need to format them. You just need to disklabel (partition) them and newfs the filesystems. I think the install takes care of some of this for you. >c) how do I get the miniroot onto the drives (so I can install the rest) > >The resouces I have are: >... >386 DX w/ blank 40 MB IDE hard drive Well, I personally would install NetBSD on the 386 and use that to netboot the Sparc. However, you would want a little more drive space to do that (like, say, 120 MB or so). cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.