I am trying to update a MicroVAX 3100, running an old NetBSD 1.5.3. Idea
was to add NetBSD 9.3 on another disk.
So I attached an additional hard drive to the machine and wanted to
partition that disk and create filesystems on it. On one partition I
wanted to put the NetBSD installation and boot from that drive then.
My problem now is, on that 1.5.3 installation, there is no fdisk, no
mkfs, no bsdlabel. I checked the installations tgz files located here
https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.5.3/vax/binary/sets/,
but these also do not contain these tools. But they are required to
create the partitions and file systems I want to use for installation.
From where can I get these files to continue my installation of NetBSD
9.3 ?
I am restricted in my options for the installation, I have harddisk,
cdrom and maybe floppy(not tested). With cdrom I've already failed,
because MicroVAX console boot loader seems to have problems with either
the drive or the ISO image containing NetBSD 9.3 I've used (ISO was
downloaded from
https://ftp.fau.de/netbsd/NetBSD-9.3/iso/NetBSD-9.3-vax.iso )
So my question is, from where can I get or compile 1.5.3 versions of
fdisk and mkfs. I saw there is newfs, which may replace mkfs. But fdisk
still seems missing. I saw also in doc a tool required named bsdlabel,
but there is a tools called disklabel, which may be an older version of
bsdlabel...
Or is there an easier way to do it? Any help welcome
gcc is present on the 1.5.3 installation, so I may be able to compile
from sources, but I am NetBSD starter and do not even know where the
source would come from. The tool pkgsrc is also not present on the 1.5.3
installation.
(I am a NetBSD beginner. But using Linux for +30 years, so both newbie
and old rabbit).
Dennis
