Re: netbsd 2.0 on rs6000 43p, what I've been able to do so far, and where i got stuck

Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:03:15 -0500
Tim Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1.  What does "IIRC" mean?  Not familiar with that abbreviation.
If I Remember Correctly

> 2.  NetBSD booted from generic_com0.fs or sysinst_com0.fs does not
> like my Linux nfs server, 
This is a MI (Machine Independent) problem and should be discussed on
tech-kern or tech-net.

> 3.  When I try to boot from disk, it cascades thru the boot options 
> (floppy, cd, disk, net) and finally tries to find a BOOTP server to
> send it it's disk image via tftp.
Maybe you need a newer firmware. I was not able to boot my machine via
net until I updated to the latest firmware.

> 5. No X, huh?
No X. Too few people with too less interrest bringing X11Server to
port-prep.

> Can I at least run X remotely to an X display on another machine?
Sure you can.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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