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Old 15th October 2009
shep shep is offline
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I think I found the problem

I have several Via C3 powered systems - they were cheap and efficient. I think a lightweight netbsd system would be a good match.

I'm guessing I have to install and retain the NetBSD 1.6.2 bootloader but Iwould like to end up with 5.0.1 rather than version 3.0.1 (described in the above link) Anyone done this? Any other suggestions about how install 5.0.1 on a Via C3? Good thing I put in a floppy on one of Via C3 systems that runs Slackware - at least I can make the boot floppies.

Another thought would be to install a minimal Slackware system with lilo. Make the 4th partition a NetBSD file system. Copy the NetBSD install sets to linux and extract them to the 4th
partition. Then add the appropriate NetBSD entry to lilo. I've tried googling for a howto but haven't had much luck. Anyone aware if this is even possible and if so know where some instructions can be found?

Last edited by shep; 15th October 2009 at 09:45 PM. Reason: another thought
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