[rescue] Tadople 3gx and OpenBSD oddessy

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 11:08:53 CDT 2005


Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:47:15PM +0100, Shirker wrote:
> 
> 
>>ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/sparc/cd37.iso is what you would be
>>wanting.
> 
> 
> It's a small boot image. I used the files from it to create the file
> system I shared with NFS. What I was hoping for was something like a
> Linux, Solaris, MacOs, or even Windows CD where you boot from it,
> answer a few questions and it installs without the network.
> 
> If I knew then what I know now, I would have done that in two steps,
> one with the cd37 ISO image and a second with the rest of the files.
> 
> Netbooting worked fine and got it installed, but it was not fun. :-(

If you go to the NetBSD website's documentation sessions, it has 
information about creating your own installation CD image.  Download the 
NetBSD-3.0-BETA files and follow the directions.  You should be able to 
install without the network.

Peace...  Sridhar



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