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- From: oster@cs.usask.ca (Greg Oster)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD 1.1 on my A3000
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:44:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
- Message-ID: <4fip2l$d4m@tribune.usask.ca>
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- Blitter (dkaupp@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Siegfried Kaltenbrunner (siegfried.kaltenbrunner@siemens.at) wrote:
- : : Amiga OS is 3.1 and Super-Kickstart is loaded from HD.
-
- : : Any suggestion what is going wrong?
-
- : : bye
-
- : I've netmailed with 3 othere people who have softkicked 3000's and so
- : far 0/3 for installing NetBsd1.1 from scratch and 0/1 for the upgrade
- : from 1.0 -> 1.1 .
-
- : If someone has upgraded or installed NetBSD1.1 onto a Romless 3000,
- : please put it in the Faq.
-
- For the record, I've got a SuperKickstarted A3000 (Pulls 2.04 (or
- whatever it is -- I don't use it much anymore :-) ) from the HD), and
- I'm happily running 1.1.
-
- Now I didn't actually use/follow any of the upgrade scripts. My
- "upgrade" path was from 1.0 -> 1.0-current(of some unknown date) ->
- 1.1Alpha (again of some unknown date) -> 1.1. If I recall correctly,
- the first upgrade was via a "snapshot", and the latter two I compiled
- the "world" myself. The "upgrade" occured over the entire year
- between 1.0 and 1.1.
-
- Yes, NetBSD1.1 will run on a "Romless A3000" (16MB Fast, 2MB Chip,
- RetinaZII, bunch of HDs, broken floppy). Unfortunately it looks like
- "normal" installation/upgrade may not work... :-(
-
- You might want to try something like the following: (**PLEASE** be
- careful if you decide to do some of the following, and make sure you
- have a (good) backup of your HD. The room for error is very small,
- and the effects can be devastating (kiss the data on your HD
- goodbye..). You have been warned. Aside from that, it could also be
- fun and quite rewarding. :-) )
-
- Follow the instructions in INSTALL, but say "no" when it asks you to
- if you want to install, and then spend some time "playing around" in
- the miniroot. If a bunch of simple things (like "ls" and "cat" and
- whatever else is there) seem to work fine, then you could try a more
- "manual" installation. Try a "disklabel sd0c" and see if it
- finds/identifies all the partitions on the disk. If you're feeling
- brave (and realize that newfs can TOAST partitions) you could try
- using newfs to format sd0a and sd0d (ie. "newfs /dev/rsd0a", "newfs
- /dev/rsd0d"). If that works, and you're *still* feeling brave, then
- mount /dev/sd0a on /mnt (i.e. "mount /dev/sd0a /mnt"), and /dev/sd0d
- on /mnt/usr, build yourself a "fstab" (remember to put it in /mnt/etc,
- not in /etc) and then "load the distribution sets" as per the INSTALL
- docs... With any luck you should have a NetBSD 1.1 system :-)
-
- (Parts of the above are a bit vague and some minor "in between" steps
- (e.g. direcotry creation) steps are missing. That's deliberate. I
- wrote the above as a general guide, not as a cookbook. If you want/need
- more specifics, I'd be happy to supply them.)
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Later...
-
- Greg Oster
-
- oster@cs.usask.ca
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
-