Re: installing on F40/E30

A brief follow-up:

 - Got NetBSD running on the E30, no X installed
 - Used the sysinst_com0.fs (by netbooting) from NetBSD 4 - daily (I think it 
was Aug 19th one)
 - I needed a serial cable, because the graphics card does not work in NetBSD
 - When I rebooted it, I had to manually tell it to use /dev/sd0b (it was 
trying to boot from the swap partition, which is /dev/sd0a).

For the last item, should I reinstall it to make / the first partition, or 
where do I change the bootloader to boot automagically from the correct 
partition?

I'd like to thanks the NetBSD folks, in special Tim, for supporting such a 
beautiful release.

Cheers,

Pilla

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 15:32, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> On 23-Aug-2006 Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> >  * Which image should I serve to them on the tftp server?
>
> You want the sysinist_com0 image (for serial port)
>
> >  * Must I provide a nfs root?
>
> Not required for installation.
>
> >  * Should my S3 Virge graphics card work on console mode (at least), or
> > do I really need a serial console?
>
> Theoretically it might work with the non-com0 image, but I wouldn't hold my
> breath.
>
>
> Once you netboot the sysinst_com0.fs image, it will just boot straight into
> the installer, and you can begin the steps to install normally.
>
> ---
> Tim Rightnour <[email protected]>
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