From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 28 09:08:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19954 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19949 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26561; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Jim King cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:49:22 CST." <199810281349.HAA19410@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:07:27 -0800 Message-ID: <26557.909594447@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Has anybody had any luck using boot.flp on a Zip drive? Mine stopped and > asked for the "floppy containing mfsroot.gz", then complained it couldn't > find /mfsroot.gz, then hung. (This is off the 10-27 snapshot on > mirrors.rcn.com.) You're supposed to load the mfsroot image too before booting the kernel. > Is the procedure for installing using the NetBSD boot floppy documented > anywhere? I don't have any problem booting it and going through the file > system setup, but I don't know what to do next. Pretty simple - just make the filesystems with install and then xfer over the dist bits you're interested in and run their install.sh scripts. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message