On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Dennis Dingeldein wrote:
> I am trying to update a MicroVAX 3100, running an old NetBSD 1.5.3. > > My 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 partition 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 and no mkfs. > 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 mkfs and fdisk. > > From where can I get these files to continue my installation of NetBSD 9.3. ? > > I am very 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 NerttBSD 9.3 I've used > > (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 1.5.3 versions of fdisk and mkfs. I saw there is newfs, > which may replace mkfs. But fdisk still seems missing. > > Or is there an easier way to do it? Any help welcome > > (I am a NetBSD new user. But using Linux for +30 years, so both newbie and old > rabbit). > You use "disklabel" (instead of fdisk) and "newfs" (instead of mkfs). regards, chris
