Help needed with Amiga Format's NetBSD
César Córcoles
Has anybody installed successfully NetBSD from Amiga Format's CD, if so,
culd you please mail me and tell me how you did it.
Thank you.
Aki M Laukkanen
César Córcoles <cas...@uab-cc.uab.es> wrote:
: Has anybody installed successfully NetBSD from Amiga Format's CD, if so,
: culd you please mail me and tell me how you did it.
: Thank you.
I just got the CD too and found out that as it is, it's no use to
anybody. First the utils/ drawer misses the all-important
loadbsd -utility which is needed to boot NetBSD from AmigaOS. Also
some of the binary/ stuff is broken. I found these need to be replaced:
binary/base121/base121.do
binary/man121/man121.ac
binary/misc121/misc121.ah
These files seems to be couple of thousands bytes short of the correct
files and there might be some others I missed. Anyway without these you
won't be able to install all of the NetBSD distribution because the
Extract -script fails upon encountering them.
Also secr121 package is completely missing and there's no other stuff
besides the basic distribution.
You can get the missing files from NetBSD mirror sites. A list of these
can be found in the accompanying documentation.
--
D.
Colin Ward
Aki M Laukkanen <amla...@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>César Córcoles <cas...@uab-cc.uab.es> wrote:
>: Has anybody installed successfully NetBSD from Amiga Format's CD, if so,
>: culd you please mail me and tell me how you did it.
>: Thank you.
>I just got the CD too and found out that as it is, it's no use to
>anybody. First the utils/ drawer misses the all-important
>loadbsd -utility which is needed to boot NetBSD from AmigaOS. Also
>some of the binary/ stuff is broken. I found these need to be replaced:
Just go to a NetBSD distribution site (there's one at
http://www.livewire.com.au) and grab it from there. A silly omission, but
not that difficult to get over...
>binary/base121/base121.do
>binary/man121/man121.ac
>binary/misc121/misc121.ah
>These files seems to be couple of thousands bytes short of the correct
>files and there might be some others I missed. Anyway without these you
>won't be able to install all of the NetBSD distribution because the
>Extract -script fails upon encountering them.
I got NetBSD running successfully on my Ami, even with these broken
archives... The only noticeable problem is that you only end up with half
of your man entries, which makes things quite painful. Anyway, it can
still be installed once you get the loadbsd proggy. BUT I must say that it
is pretty lame of them to not check things out before they sent the CD-ROM
out... And not only that, but it's also on the November CD-ROM with the
same broken archives and the same missing loadbsd! Man! I program
commercial apps myself and the *last* thing we would consider where I work
is not *testing* an installation on a "clean" computer before sending it
out!!!
>Also secr121 package is completely missing and there's no other stuff
>besides the basic distribution.
The security stuff isn't allowed to be exported from the US because the
US Government classify it as a "weopon" that could be used against them!
Hahahaha!
>You can get the missing files from NetBSD mirror sites. A list of these
>can be found in the accompanying documentation.
It's nice that we got NetBSD on the CD-ROM as that saves the trouble of
downloading it, but is it really that difficult to test it before it goes
out? It's like when you download a demo of a game from somewhere and have
to stuff around to get it working because the programmers have obviously
just Lha'd it up and uploaded it without actually trying to install it on
another computer... Witness the Shadow of the Third Moon fiasco...
Pretty cool seeing X-Windows running on my Ami though!
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Ben Hutchings
In article <62eapn$m06$1...@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>,
Colin Ward <co...@leprechaun.com.au> wrote:
<snip>
>>Also secr121 package is completely missing and there's no other stuff
>>besides the basic distribution.
>
> The security stuff isn't allowed to be exported from the US because the
>US Government classify it as a "weopon" that could be used against them!
>Hahahaha!
Which makes me an arms smuggler 'cos I got them from a US FTP site a
while back.
--
Ben Hutchings, compsci&mathmo | ICOAmiga http://www.lapcopaintball.com/icoa/
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Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
Colin Ward
worc...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ben Hutchings) wrote:
>In article <62eapn$m06$1...@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>,
>Colin Ward <co...@leprechaun.com.au> wrote:
><snip>
>>>Also secr121 package is completely missing and there's no other stuff
>>>besides the basic distribution.
>>
>> The security stuff isn't allowed to be exported from the US because the
>>US Government classify it as a "weopon" that could be used against them!
>>Hahahaha!
>Which makes me an arms smuggler 'cos I got them from a US FTP site a
>while back.
Oooh errrr! We've got a big time crime boss in our midst! :-)
My flatmate has got a very cool and nerdy T-Shirt. It has some algorithm
printed on the front that the US Government has classified as a "dangerous
weapon" and banned outside the states, and printed in large letters above
the algorithm are the words "This T-Shirt is a lethal weapon!"
>Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
Commodore, Windows, the original IBM PC. :-)