Newbie Question

[Michael Jeffrey Tucker]

Hi,

I just installed NetBSD/macppc on a 7500/100 upgraded to a 604e/120Mhz and
have run into a roadblock. The installation went fine, but on reboot I get
an error message "warning: no /dev/console". In the faq for mac68k I found
a reference for this which said that my devices needed to be built from
the installer program. Unfortunately, there IS no Build Device menu option
in the installer, and I have been unable to find a way to manually build
them. Any hints?

Thanks,
Mike

[Michael Jeffrey Tucker]

Update...

It turns out that when I first ran the installer I was missing one of
the X packages. I don't know why that stopped it from building devices,
but I reinstalled the whole system with xbase included and it came up
fine.

Thanks!
Mike

[gabriel rosenkoetter]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 02:55:57PM -0400, Michael Jeffrey Tucker wrote:
> It turns out that when I first ran the installer I was missing one of
> the X packages. I don't know why that stopped it from building devices,
> but I reinstalled the whole system with xbase included and it came up
> fine.

Actually, I just had a similar problem installing on an i386 laptop
(and am profoundly more screwed by it there, but that's another
story). This is *definitely* a problem in sysinst. If you tell it to
install a package that you don't have the .tgz for, it will happily
continue the installation... of the packages. Nothing else. It will
not run MAKEDEV, it will not create and fstab on the new disk, nada.

I'll write up a PR, maybe, but it's not an easy thing to decide on and
deserves discussion, first. (Question to the list... where?)

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[Michael Jeffrey Tucker]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone has any pointers on getting X Windows for
NetBSD into a visually usable state. I am running it on a 7500/100
(upgraded to a 604e/120). Although the FAQ says that the best resolution
possible is 640x480 (and needs to be set through OF), is there anything
that can be done to improve X's look? Also, is there really no way to map
key-button combinations to the other two possible buttons for X? I guess
it comes down to a question of whether or not X is really usable at all
for NetBSD?

Thanks,
Mike

[Henry B. Hotz]

At 1:51 PM -0400 7/11/00, Michael Jeffrey Tucker wrote:
>I just installed NetBSD/macppc on a 7500/100 upgraded to a 604e/120Mhz and
>have run into a roadblock. The installation went fine, but on reboot I get
>an error message "warning: no /dev/console". In the faq for mac68k I found
>a reference for this which said that my devices needed to be built from
>the installer program. Unfortunately, there IS no Build Device menu option
>in the installer, and I have been unable to find a way to manually build
>them. Any hints?

There is probably something else going on, but to answer your
question directly:

exit sysinst to the command line
mount the install disk on /mnt
cd /mnt/dev
./MAKEDEV all

If the MAKEDEV script isn't in /mnt/dev then you are missing the
install of one of the tarballs. Probably base.tgz.

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