Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:07:46 -0500, RJ Kucia wrote:
> John - For that, do I just need to unpack netbsd-INSTALL.gz and place
> that on the Unix partition? Or would the booter just work with the gz
> directly from the HFS partition while Mac OS is running?

Just transfer the installer kernel to the MacOS side, the booter can 
boot from a local kernel.

>> I'm assuming the installation was done with the "modern" method and not
>> with the "traditional" method, since the traditional method doesn't seem
>> to work any more at all (it creates the wrong, older type, of ffs root
>> filesystem).
> 
> Stan - I was following this guide:
> http://users.erols.com/ewinkler/installguide/installguide.html
> 
> I'm not sure if that counts as "traditional" or "modern".

Nicely made, but "The installation process should work with any version 
of NetBSD from 1.3 to 1.4.2." - so yes, "traditional".  ;)

ISTR we've had sysinst-enabled install kernels on mac68k since at least 
netbsd-3.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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