Re: booting from HD, X server for 712 (King Gecko)?

thus Jochen Kunz spake:

> On Sat, 28 May 2005 22:56:18 +0200
> Timo Schoeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>i) is it sufficient to dd 'netinstall.lif' to the HD then built into
>>the machine to boot it?
> 
> Yes. But this is not the normal way to make a disk bootable. You should
> run "disklabel -B sd0" to install bootblocks, copy /usr/mdec/boot to
> /boot.hp700 and place a kernel /netbsd in the / FS.

okay, that's the usual way. but to go there, i still have to netboot the
machine, don't i? (presuming that booting e.g. from cdrom is not
possible yet.)

> 
> 
>>ii) is X running/useable?
> 
> No X11. It should be possible to write a generic XServer that utilizes
> STI ROM functions, but there is nothing like this at the horizon.

that's what i thought :/ -- so how stable does it perform in multiuser
level? perhaps it may give a nice little file and mail server ;)

tia & cheers,

timo

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