welcome revision 1.1
1 1.1 lukem 2 1.1 lukem Welcome to the NetBSD/sun2 RAMDISK root! 3 1.1 lukem 4 1.1 lukem This environment is designed to do only three things: 5 1.1 lukem 1: Partition your disk (use the command: edlabel /dev/rsd0c) 6 1.1 lukem 2: Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition (/dev/rsd0b) 7 1.1 lukem 3: Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd?b). 8 1.1 lukem 9 1.1 lukem Note that the sun2 firmware cannot boot from a partition located 10 1.1 lukem more than 1 GB from the beginning of the disk, so the swap partition 11 1.1 lukem should be completely below the 1 GB boundary. 12 1.1 lukem 13 1.1 lukem Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing 14 1.1 lukem the source of the miniroot image to be on any of these: 15 1.1 lukem boot tape, NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server 16 1.1 lukem 17 1.1 lukem The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows: 18 1.1 lukem mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind 19 1.1 lukem mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 2 20 1.1 lukem dd bs=32k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b 21 1.1 lukem (For help with other methods, please see the install notes.) 22 1.1 lukem 23 1.1 lukem To reboot using the swap partition, first use "halt", 24 1.1 lukem then at the PROM monitor prompt use a command like: 25 1.1 lukem b sd(,,1) -s 26 1.1 lukem 27 1.1 lukem To view this message again, type: cat /.welcome 28
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