Re: What are the boot options to install netbsd 1.6.0 on a notebook ?

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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:42:34 -0600

In article <4a1641ae.0311051528.6ece4de2@posting.google.com>,
        fab102@bluemail.ch (Karim) writes:
>
> I own an old notebook (pentium 155mmx with cdrom).
> I tried to install the first netbsd 1.6.0 iso on it, but the
> installation failed. At least, I cannot boot the iso kernel.
> There are some screen outputs when I boot the cd :
>
> booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
> open netbsd : No such file or directory
> boot: fd0a : netbsd : No such file or directory
> booting fd0a : netbsd.gz
> open netbsd.gz : No such file or directory
>
> .. and it goes on like this.
> Can somebody explain to me, how to solve this boot problem, I didn`t
> find anything on the main netbsdpage ?

Looks like that CD was made wrong. Your laptop must be capable of
booting from CD, or you wouldn't have gotten that far. You could
see if the 1.6.1 CD works any better,

    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.6.1/i386cd.iso

If not, or if you'd rather not download all that, or if you can't
burn CDs, you could make bootable floppies from boot1.fs and boot2.fs
on either CD, using "rawrite32.exe" (on the CD) under Windows, or
using "dd" under any unix-like system. (This is discussed in the
INSTALL.{html,more,ps,txt} document, on the CD(s), albeit the 1.6.0
document is short on details.) You can boot from the floppies, yet
still install the sets from the CD.

Frederick

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