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 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .