Re: Installation problem/question

Jason M. Donahue wrote:
> Hey all,
>  
> I'm in the process of trying to install NetBSD 3.1 on my MobilePro 
> 880, and am running into difficulty once I get to the point where the 
> installer wants to know where to find the rest of the installation 
> files (specifically the contents of /hpcmips/binary/sets/). 
>  
> FTP, HTTP and NFS don't work for me, since I don't have a wired NIC 
> for this device, and can't find anywhere to input SSID or WEP key for 
> WiFi.
>  
> Local drive isn't working either, since that's looking on the FFS 
> partition of the CF card, which I can't write the files to (I don't 
> currently have a running NetBSD or Linux box, and all the FFS 
> solutions I've found for Windows are read-only).  I've set it up so 
> the CF card has a 94 MB FAT16 partition, and left the binary files 
> there, figuring I could use the "Unmounted fs" option to install, but 
> I have no idea what the correct settings for this option are.
>  
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this running?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> --Jason
I do something similar on a nec mobilepro 780 (install from unmounted 
file system, msdosfs, on CF
but not the one containing kernel and bootloader).
I don't remember exaclty the partition table, but, if you try mount and 
search all the possible (from a to f i think), you will succesed!
Bye Giacomo
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