$NetBSD: prep,v 1.2 1998/01/09 18:46:55 perry Exp $ mvme68k machines usually need little or no preparation before installing NetBSD, other than the usual, well advised precaution of BACKING UP ALL DATA on any attached storage devices. The following instructions should make your machine "NetBSD Ready". Power-up your VME147. You should have the "bug" prompt: COLD Start Onboard RAM start = $00000000, stop = $007FFFFF 147-Bug> Make sure the value for "stop" looks ok (if you've got 8MB you should have the same value as I do). Also make sure the clock is ticking: 147-Bug>time Sunday 12/21/29 16:25:14 147-Bug>time Sunday 12/21/29 16:25:15 147-Bug> Note that NetBSD bases it's year at 1968, and adds the year offset in the VME147's real-time clock to get the current year. So the '29' here equates to 1997. You may have to adjust your clock using the 'set' command to comply with NetBSD's requirements. Don't worry if the "Day of the week" is not correct, NetBSD doesn't use it. (Actually, Motorola have acknowledged a year 2000 bug whereby the day of the week doesn't get set correctly by the 147Bug PROM. IT DOES NOT AFFECT NETBSD!) Also make sure that your VME147's ethernet address is initialised to the correct value. You'll find the address on a label on the inside of the board's front panel. Enter the last five digits of the address using the 'lsad' command. To install successfully to a local SCSI disk, you need to ensure that 147Bug is aware of what targets are connected to the SCSI bus. This can be done by issueing the following command: --> 147-Bug> iot;t At this point, 147Bug will scan for any attached SCSI devices. After a short delay, a list of SCSI devices will be displayed. You will be asked if Bug should assign LUNs to SCSI ids, to which you should answer Y. You should also answer Y when asked if the information is to be saved to NVRAM. The following installation instructions will assume that your target SCSI disk drive appears at SCSI-id 0. If you have a tape drive, the instructions assume is is configured for SCSI-id 5. When the RAMDISK root boots, NetBSD will refer to these devices as 'sd0' and 'rst0' respectively. You may wish to note these down; you'll be using them a lot. :-)