On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 4:07 AM <jo...@sdf.org> wrote: > > > Hi I would say to take to hard drive out and use some other computer to > > install NetBSD 10 on it or use qemu. > > to use qemu install the drive in a linux machine with the linux boot drive > > and run "qemu-system-i386 -cpu pentium -m 64 -cdrom > > NetBSD-10.0rc1-i386.iso -hda /dev/oldlaptopsdisk" > > where NetBSD-10.0rc1-i386.iso is the netbsd install iso and > > "/dev/oldlaptopsdisk" is the device to the old laptops drive > > xu...@sdf.org > > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
There are several more things you could do: 1. Install NetBSD 10 onto a CF card. Update the bootloader on the HDD, then boot with "boot /netbsd10 root=sd0a" or something like that. That will show you if NetBSD 10 works at all. 2. Update the bootloader, install the NetBSD 10 kernel and https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC1/i386/installation/miniroot/miniroot.kmod. Load the miniroot module from the bootloader, and you will have an installer. You could perhaps use that installer to do the installation as per #1. 3. Instead of gdt's scripts, there is also sysupgrade from pkgsrc. You can do "sysupgrade fetch kernel modules", reboot, then do the other steps. -- Benny
