Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:22:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Its arrived Message-ID: <199707222022.NAA13992@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4244.869591184@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 22, 97 10:06:24 am
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> Installing NetBSD would probably not be a bad idea at all, though if > you're looking for an environment from which to bootstrap your efforts > (that being why there are 2 drives in those machines with only one > actually populated :-) then you're probably best off with what you've > got installed on it right now - Digital UNIX. DUX is a stable > development platform, it has a decent toolchain (and a compiler which > generally produces better code that gcc at present) and all the X > frobs you could possibly want (plus some you probably won't, like CDE :-). I guess, at least initially, the arguemnt for using the NT vs. the OSF microcode has been rescinded? > I'll also admit that pure laziness largely dictated my own choice - I > looked at the NetBSD installation and thought "It's distributed as an > rz25 disk image... Hmmmm. How very interesting. Now where did I > leave that Digital UNIX CDROM?" :-) It's is relatively trivial to take any 450M or larger disk and dd the image to it. After this, you can modify the disklabel relatively easily to span the whole disk (be sure and frob up the number of partitions in the label at the same time, or it won't stick). Since the disk geometry is not used (except to pester the user with asterisks in the label editing process for no good reason, since the damn drives are ZBR'ed anyway), one absolute sector offset is as good as another. I had a number of problems with the swap. You must explicity name it "swap" in the label for it to work; this is a bit of a pain. Also the default device name was wrong in the /etc/fstab it installed. Other than that, it was not too terrible. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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