18 Feb
2019
18 Feb
'19
11:24 a.m.
On 2/18/19 10:42 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctech at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000
7043-140 (a
mid-90s PReP architecture machine)?
The NetBSD boot floppy images are confusing to me. The files are too
large to fit on a 1.44M floppy. I didn't see instructions on how
to make
boot floppies out of the .fs files one can download in the install
instructions. I went ahead and tried to dd the part that fits onto a
1.44M floppy and try to boot that and of course that failed. I have
e-mailed the NetBSD prep mailing list and no response from that.
I'd strongly suggest setting up a netboot server. You'll need
dhcp/bootp?and tftp, but it's way better than trying to deal with
floppy disks and floppy booting.? I've used it succesfully for NetBSD
and Linux on a '140.
I never tried Solaris, because I have no interest in Solaris, but it
should work the same there.
Thanks.
I prefer floppy because I am usually putting systems back together away
from a network connection. But, if that is what it
takes to get an
usable OS onto the system, I guess I will cobble together the
pieces to
do that.
But now I am more inclined to install Solaris on it :)
alan
Pat