--- Andrew Basterfield
<list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:32:54 -0800 (PST)
> Gavin Li <bsdlist@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > But, Why can I use this floppy disk and floppy
> drive
> > to boot NetBSD image?
>
> Maybe you put NetBSD on a better quality floppy disk
> that the drive will
> read, maybe the NetBSD bootloader works better with
> your hardware. I don't
> know.
>
The floppy and driver are the same.
I successfully boot OBSD 2.9 from floppy, which means
floppy30.fs has not been tested before put in the
release.
> > I have some difficult to net boot OBSD, although I
> can
> > use RARP/TFTP, NFS to net boot NetBSD.
>
> If you can net boot NetBSD then you can net boot
> OpenBSD.
>
> Rename to NetBSD boot.net in /tftpboot to
> boot.net.nbsd, put the OpenBSD
> boot.net in there as boot.net.obsd and make the
> ip-address-in-hex symlink
> point to boot.net.obsd. Make sure permissions are OK
> so tftpd can read the
> file.
>
> Put bsd.rd in the root of the NFS exported NetBSD
> root filesystem
>
> Boot the system with 'boot net bsd.rd'
>
> You may get a 5 minute timeout after the OpenPROM
> finishes fetching
> boot.net.obsd via tftp (I do), this is annoying but
> you just have to wait.
> The NetBSD loader doesn't do this.
>
> Let me know how you get on.
>
> If you need any further sparc-specific information
> you may get a better
> response at sparc@openbsd.org rather than misc@.
>
> regards
>
> A. Basterfield
Thanks.
Gavin
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