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From: "G.K. Meier" <meierg@ENGR.ORST.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Help : Installing NetBSD on Sun 4/280
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:11:41 -0700
Organization: Network for Education and Research in Oregon
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I am trying to install NetBSD on a sun 4/280, but I cannot figure out how
to get it on the hard disk.

Ok here is the problem
I have one sun 4/280 w/ two hard drives hooked up through the Xylogics
7053, about 900 MB each.
2 aui ethernet ports (ie0,ie1)
VME scsi card (no hard drives or cdrom attached)
32 MB ram
prestoserve (NVRAM to increase speed of NFS)
cgtwo

(it is a sun4 architecture, and pre sparcstation 1, I think)
The computer currently has SunOS 4.1.4 installed
The console has been marked as not secure so when I boot up in single user
mode it asks me for a password, but because the person I got this from
could not remeber the password, I cannot do much with it.


a) For netbsd what format do the drives need to be.
b) what do I format them with (how?)
c) how do I get the miniroot onto the drives (so I can install the rest) 

The resouces I have are:
blank 800 MB scsi hard drive
mac IIci
scsi Zip Drive
386 DX w/ blank 40 MB IDE hard drive
BeBox
and I have a direct internet connetion via my school 


Sincerely,
	G.K. Meier
meierg@ucs.orst.edu