Re: scsi controllers, bsd file system
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> grr. Still going :( I am about to connect more pieces here in the
> chain.
>
> Device 0 (i can't figure out how to change the id; the switches seem to
> do nothing) will be this troublesome NEC intersect drive. Device 3 is
> an ancient apple cdrom drive--it should be able to read the directory &
> first few megs (if anyone understands how to recalibrate these ancient
> sony monstrosities with their timing slug, i'd be eternally grateful!).
> Device 5 is a zip, with my macbsd partitions.
>
> Which leads to the magic question: what type is a netbsd (but not their
> newfs) disk? is it still type 83? a5 (bsd386)? b7 (BSDI fs)?
>
> and is anyone out there using a trantor t160?
>
> The next step is to use the distribution kernel, but: how do i extract
> it from resc1440.bin?
The file named 'linux' in /bo/disks-i386/current is a kernel. I think it's
the same as the one in the rescue disk. It's the same size.
You can mount the rescue image on loopback and copy files from it.
mount resc1440.bin -r -t msdos -o loop /mnt/floppy1
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