--- trunk/doc/guestoses.html	2007/10/08 16:21:43	37
+++ trunk/doc/guestoses.html	2007/10/08 16:21:53	38
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 <!--
 
-$Id: guestoses.html,v 1.209 2007/03/18 03:33:25 debug Exp $
+$Id: guestoses.html,v 1.212 2007/04/14 05:38:00 debug Exp $
 
 Copyright (C) 2003-2007  Anders Gavare.  All rights reserved.
 
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@
   <li><a href="#ultrixinstall">Ultrix/RISC 4.5</a>
   <li><a href="#sprite">Sprite for DECstation</a>
   <li><a href="#declinux">Debian GNU/Linux for DECstation</a>
-  <li><a href="#declinuxredhat">Redhat Linux for DECstation</a>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -99,6 +98,7 @@
 
 <ul>
   <li><a href="#mach">Mach/PMAX</a>
+  <li><a href="#declinuxredhat">Redhat Linux for DECstation</a>
   <li><a href="#openbsdsgiinstall">OpenBSD/sgi</a>
   <li><a href="#openbsdarcinstall">OpenBSD/arc 2.3</a>
   <li><a href="#debiancats">Debian GNU/Linux for CATS</a>
@@ -1651,6 +1651,11 @@
 	<a href="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/mipsel/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-mipsel-netinst.iso">http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/mipsel/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-mipsel-netinst.iso</a>
 
 </pre>
+	<font color="#ff0000">NOTE 2007-04-14: It seems that the ISO image
+	has been removed from the cdimage site. You may need to search
+	for it elsewhere. :-/ Alternatively, you can follow
+	Michel Lespinasse's instructions at
+	<a href="http://people.zoy.org/~walken/gxemul-etch/HOWTO.html">http://people.zoy.org/~walken/gxemul-etch/HOWTO.html</a>.</font>
   <p>
   <li>Start the installation like this:<pre>
 	<b>gxemul -X -e3max -d debian_pmax.img -d debian-31r0a-mipsel-netinst.iso vmlinux-2.4.31</b>
@@ -1737,72 +1742,6 @@
 
 
 <p><br>
-<a name="declinuxredhat"></a>
-<h3>Redhat Linux for DECstation:</h3>
-
-
-<p>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-<a href="20041129-redhat_mips.png"><img src="20041129-redhat_mips_small.png"></a>
-
-<p>
-The following steps should let you run Redhat Linux for DECstation in GXemul:
-
-<p>
-<ol>
-  <li>Download a kernel. David Muse' Debian-install kernel works fine:<pre>
-	<a href="http://www.firstworks.com/mips-linux-2.4.31/vmlinux-2.4.31">http://www.firstworks.com/mips-linux-2.4.31/vmlinux-2.4.31</a>
-
-</pre>
-  <li>Download a root filesystem tree:<pre>
-	<a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root/mipsel-root-20011216.tgz">ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root/mipsel-root-20011216.tgz</a>
-	19486676 bytes, md5 = 5bcb725c90209479cd7ead8ad0c4a414
-
-</pre>
-  <li>Create a disk image which will contain the Redhat filesystem:<pre>
-	<b>dd if=/dev/zero of=redhat_mips.img bs=1024 count=1 seek=2000000</b>
-
-</pre>
-  <li>This is the tricky part: on redhat_mips.img, you need to create an MS-DOS
-	(!) partition table, and then an ext2 partition. This is what Linux
-	will then see as /dev/sda1.
-	<p>I recommend you run fdisk and mke2fs and untar the archive from within
-	Debian/DECstation or <a href="#debiancats">Debian/CATS</a> running
-	inside the emulator. (Alternatively, if you are on a Linux host,
-	you could use a loopback mount, or similar. This might require
-	root access. See e.g.
-	<a href="http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux">http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux</a>.)
-	<p>
-	In order to actually boot the system you need to modify /etc/fstab.
-	Change<pre>
-	/dev/root               /               nfs     defaults        1 1
-	#/dev/sdc1              /               ext2    defaults        1 1
-	none                    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
-	none                    /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0622       0 0
-
-</pre>to<pre>
-	#/dev/root              /               nfs     defaults        1 1
-	/dev/sda1               /               ext2    defaults        1 1
-	none                    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
-	none                    /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0622       0 0
-
-</pre>(Note sda1 instead of sdc1.)
-</ol>
-
-<p>To boot Redhat linux from the disk image, use the following command line:<pre>
-	<b>gxemul -X -e3max -o "root=/dev/sda1 ro" -d redhat_mips.img vmlinux-2.4.31</b>
-
-</pre>
-If you need to boot into single user mode, change options to
-<tt><b>-o "root=/dev/sda1 rw init=/bin/sh"</b></tt>.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p><br>
 <hr>
 
 
@@ -1887,6 +1826,77 @@
 
 
 
+
+
+<p><br>
+<a name="declinuxredhat"></a>
+<h3>Redhat Linux for DECstation:</h3>
+
+
+<p>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<a href="20041129-redhat_mips.png"><img src="20041129-redhat_mips_small.png"></a>
+
+<p>
+The following steps should let you run Redhat Linux for DECstation in GXemul:
+
+<p>
+<ol>
+  <li>Download a kernel. David Muse' Debian-install kernel works fine:<pre>
+	<a href="http://www.firstworks.com/mips-linux-2.4.31/vmlinux-2.4.31">http://www.firstworks.com/mips-linux-2.4.31/vmlinux-2.4.31</a>
+
+</pre>
+  <li>Download a root filesystem tree:<pre>
+	<a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root/mipsel-root-20011216.tgz">ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root/mipsel-root-20011216.tgz</a>
+	19486676 bytes, md5 = 5bcb725c90209479cd7ead8ad0c4a414
+
+</pre>
+  <li>Create a disk image which will contain the Redhat filesystem:<pre>
+	<b>dd if=/dev/zero of=redhat_mips.img bs=1024 count=1 seek=2000000</b>
+
+</pre>
+  <li>This is the tricky part: on redhat_mips.img, you need to create an MS-DOS
+	(!) partition table, and then an ext2 partition. This is what Linux
+	will then see as /dev/sda1.
+	<p>I recommend you run fdisk and mke2fs and untar the archive from within
+	Debian/DECstation or <a href="#debiancats">Debian/CATS</a> running
+	inside the emulator. (Alternatively, if you are on a Linux host,
+	you could use a loopback mount, or similar. This might require
+	root access. See e.g.
+	<a href="http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux">http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux</a>.)
+	<p>
+	In order to actually boot the system you need to modify /etc/fstab.
+	Change<pre>
+	/dev/root               /               nfs     defaults        1 1
+	#/dev/sdc1              /               ext2    defaults        1 1
+	none                    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
+	none                    /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0622       0 0
+
+</pre>to<pre>
+	#/dev/root              /               nfs     defaults        1 1
+	/dev/sda1               /               ext2    defaults        1 1
+	none                    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
+	none                    /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0622       0 0
+
+</pre>(Note sda1 instead of sdc1.)
+</ol>
+
+<p>To boot Redhat linux from the disk image, use the following command line:<pre>
+	<b>gxemul -X -e3max -o "root=/dev/sda1 ro" -d redhat_mips.img vmlinux-2.4.31</b>
+
+</pre>
+If you need to boot into single user mode, change options to
+<tt><b>-o "root=/dev/sda1 rw init=/bin/sh"</b></tt>.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
 <p><br>
 <a name="openbsdsgiinstall"></a>
 <h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>
@@ -2434,8 +2444,8 @@
 <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/landisk/">NetBSD/landisk</a> can
 run in GXemul.
 
-<p><b><font color="#ff0000">NOTE:</b></font> This is still highly 
-experimental. Installation is very unsmooth.
+<p><font color="#ff0000">NOTE: This is still too
+unstable to be considered really working!</font>
 
 <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="20070224-netbsd-landisk.png"><img src="20070224-netbsd-landisk_small.png"></a>
@@ -2460,21 +2470,23 @@
 	<b>dd if=/dev/zero of=nbsd_landisk.img bs=1024 count=1 seek=900000</b>
 
 </pre>
-
-<b>TODO</b>
-download the .iso image
+  <p>
+  <li>Download the latest netbsd-4 (pre-release) snapshot, and make an iso image
+	of it: (replace 200704110002Z with whatever is the latest one)<pre>
+	<b>wget -np -l 0 -r ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200704110002Z/landisk
+	mkisofs -U -o landisk.iso ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/*</b>
+</pre>
 
   <p>
-  <li>TODO: Start the emulated CATS machine like this:<pre>
+  <li>Start the emulated CATS machine like this:<pre>
 	<b>gxemul -XEcats -d nbsd_landisk.img -d landisk.iso netbsd.aout-INSTALL.gz</b>
 
 </pre>
   <li>Exit the installer, then execute the following commands:
 <p><table border="0"><tr><td><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt></td><td><pre>
-<b>
-disklabel -I -i wd0
-... TODO
-newfs /dev/wd0a
+<b>disklabel -i -I wd0</b>    (for example 'a', '4.2BSD', '1c',
+    '700M', 'b', 'swap', '701M', '$', 'P', 'W', 'y', and 'Q')
+<b>newfs /dev/wd0a
 mount /dev/cd0c /mnt
 mkdir /mnt2; mount /dev/wd0a /mnt2
 cd /mnt2; sh
@@ -2510,6 +2522,9 @@
 yet of OpenBSD/landisk, but there are snapshots available on the
 OpenBSD ftp site.
 
+<p><font color="#ff0000">NOTE: This is still too
+unstable to be considered really working!</font>
+
 <p>To install OpenBSD/landisk onto an emulated harddisk image,
 follow these instructions: