[SunRescue] NetBSD install via a serial console

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 08 Feb 2001 09:52:12 +0000, Dave Reader wrote:
> 
> On 7 Feb 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Anybody out there made this work?  I've gotten so to the point where it
> > tosses me into 'vi' to edit the disk label, but I don't know how to fill
> > in about half of the fields.  I've looked around at www.netbsd.org and
> > talked to the people I know who run it locally, but I can't seem to
> > figure it out.  Thanks,
> 
> Yes. I've not done one without a serial console yet :)

Heh, brave soul.  I'm almost tempted to grab a FB and a keyboard, but I
want to run this headless, and I've got a bunch of machines to install.
So far, OpenBSD has NetBSD whooped here.  :)

> I'd have to look at one to remind myself what goes where, but you're going
> to need to know the disk geometry etc.
> 
> Are you trying to actually describe the disk (eg, if it is a fresh disk
> which doesnt already have a sun disklabel) or just to alter the
> partitions/slices?

No, it's got a whole disk slice already, I'm just trying to create some
slices, probably /, swap, /usr, /var, and maybe /home.  I suppose I
could just stick everything on the / slice, depending on how much of a
PITA it is to slice this disk.

> The most recent install I've done was NetBSD 1.5 using the new Sysinst
> tool - that makes this part of the process much much easier, so that might
> be worth a look..
> 
> Oh, if you run out of space on your disk while installating with sysinst,
> it does funny things which kill minicom with signal 11 (!!) strange.

I started this a couple of weeks ago, when did 1.5 arrive.  Is the vi
editing of slices gone in this one?  Thanks,

    Greg