Installation Report
Henry B. Hotz
upgrade), an 8500 (with G3/250 upgrade) and occasionally a G4. I've
been somewhat successful with the 1.5alpha CD-ROM image.
On the G4 with that CD I can boot cd:2,ofwboot.elf -a followed by
netbsd.gz and the kernel will boot. However it does not configure
any disk devices (except the cd itself). Therefore no way to do an
install.
On the 7500 I was able to boot with the early June floppy image and
run through the install using the 1.5a tarballs from the CD. I
couldn't boot from the cd. After the install I still couldn't boot
from the cd or the new disk. I kept getting "No active package"
errors inside ofwboot until I turned off the nvramrc patches from
Apple's system disk utility. Perhaps I goofed the editing inside
resedit, but I did the editing independently on the 8500 and have
been having similar boot problems there.
As an aside 1.5a gets much farther than the previous -current
snapshot did compiling ssh. Still barfs though. Would pkgsrc solve
this problem? I've never had the hundreds of MB spare needed to
unpack the pkgsrc tar file so I've never used it, just binary
packages from Bob N's CD's.
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> On the 7500 I was able to boot with the early June floppy image and
> run through the install using the 1.5a tarballs from the CD. I
> couldn't boot from the cd. After the install I still couldn't boot
> from the cd or the new disk. I kept getting "No active package"
I've not had much luck with my 7500, but mostly due to lack of trying...
> snapshot did compiling ssh. Still barfs though. Would pkgsrc solve
> this problem? I've never had the hundreds of MB spare needed to
> unpack the pkgsrc tar file so I've never used it, just binary
> packages from Bob N's CD's.
I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
extracted pkgsrc tree. You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
pkgsrc.
-Dan
Henry B. Hotz
>I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
>extracted pkgsrc tree. You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
>need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
>pkgsrc.
Not obvious in my case. The CD burner is on a MacOS machine.
Henry B. Hotz
> > >I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
> > >extracted pkgsrc tree. You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
> > >need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
> > >pkgsrc.
> >
> > Not obvious in my case. The CD burner is on a MacOS machine.
>
>cd with the whole pkgsrc tree on it?
I guess in theory I can use suntar and macgzip to do that. I've
always used unix machines to manipulate those kinds of files though.
mcma...@mtl.mit.edu
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 3:35 PM -0400 7/14/00, mcma...@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> >I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
> >extracted pkgsrc tree. You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
> >need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
> >pkgsrc.
>
> Not obvious in my case. The CD burner is on a MacOS machine.
can you just download a pkgsrc.tar.gz, extract it, then make an ISO 9660
cd with the whole pkgsrc tree on it?
-Dan