Installing NetBSD 0.8 on Bochs
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# Intro

I cannot get this to work on Virtualbox. The installation hangs during the
second floppy being copied onto the hard drive. I cannot get floppy disc
support working on Qemu. So for this I used bochs on a NetBSD system.

# Installation

1. Make a sandbox directory netbsd08 and cd there.

2. Create a hard disc image. We will use 1000 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 
sectors/track. 
C 1000
H 16
S 63

Sectors = Cylinders * Heads * SectorsPerTrak

This is 1008000 sectors in total. A sector is 512 bytes. dd does the magic
for us:

dd if=/dev/zero of=c.img bs=512 count=1008000

3. Install bochs

pkgin install bochs

4. Run and configure it:

bochs
3
12
1 (First Floppy Drive)

5.25" 1.2M
/home/yourname/netbsd08/kc-aha.fs
1.2M
no
inserted

4 (First HD/CD on channel 0)
disk
c.img
flat

5. Then boot it. When you need to change discs, use the Config button and
change the floppy image to install1.fs2.

6. Follow the instructions - you'll need the C H S numbers above.
hen you reboot you'll need kc-aha again.

7. Similarly on the first hard disc boot you'll need install2.fs in the
floppy drive. 

8. After this step, halt BUT DO NOT REBOOT.

9. Mount the disc image on the NetBSD host system
vndconfig /dev/vnd1 c.img
mount /dev/vnd1e /mnt
cd /mnt && mkdir distrib

Copy all the sets base08.??, etc to distrib. This is cheating. In the old
days you'd be inserting floppies.

10. umount /mnt. Restart bochs

11. You can skip the load_fd stage, set_tmp_dir and extract base08 and all
the other sets.

12. Run configure

13. After a couple of reboots, You have a working system

# Convert to Qemu

qemu-img convert -f raw c.img -O qcow2 berkeley-netbsd-i386-0.8.img