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- Here are a few things that I discovered, and with the help of alot
- NETBSD pro's I was able to get this far. But feel these items need to be
- mentioned in the fact.
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- INSTALLING NETBSD:
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- 1> Use a pre 713 kernel with current rootfs that is out there (I
- really hope someone would do a new one. I would offer but I'm not
- all that sure what I'm doing.
-
- 2> HDToolBox (I think) has a bug in it when reading in information
- from some hd's. It seems that It will not read the correct number
- of heads, and blocks per track. This may have something to do with
- the gvpscsi.device or the 240meg hd. (I don't really know)
- but try using filetodev with the info from HDToolBox and it wont
- work. I do have a suggestion for a fix. Use gvpFastprep read in
- info from the hd and select the menu item make mountlist. This
- gives you two things, the info needed if you wish to use filetodev
- or a mountlist that you can use with DCP and bffsfilesystem.
-
- 3> Make a tar file of gzip, ps, newfs, and disklabel. Use dcp or
- filetodev and put this on your scratch device. Then format your
- drives and mount them as the faq states. Untar the above created
- file and make a directory in your /usr/bin copy gzip to this
- partition and rename it compress. Make sure you use the programs
- to do the formating. Then at this point you can switch to the new
- kernal a
-
- 3> Make a tar file of gzip, ps, newfs, and disklabel. Use dcp or
- fileto dev to move this tar to your scratch area. Untar this file
- and put ps, newfs, and disklabel in there proper places. Reboot
- under the 713 - or above kernal and continue on with the formating
- and mounting of the drives. Now create a dir /usr/bin and copy
- gzip into this area. Rename it to compress from this point on you
- can use the tar [z] command to uncompress the files. From this
- point on its just a mater of coping the *.tgz files to your scratch
- and "tar xzvpf /dev/rsd#(letter).
-
- 4> Using Kermit (HA!) This may help a little (I havn't tried this)
- because I manged to figure out DCP and my mount problems..
-
- create a file in ~root .kermrc put your choices for the following:
-
- set receive packet 9024
- set send packet 9024
- set file name literal
- set file type binary
- set window 3
- set line /dev/tty00
- set speed 38400
-
- This will set up kermit every time it's started.
- I'm not sure about the window 3 until you get /usr/bin files
- installed. I was helped by (michael Hitch) But feel that would be
- very helpfull if you use the modem install..
-
- 5> Man pages (I havn't verified this yet) Should be in Usr-Share.tar.gz
-
- Hope this helps, I know all the folks that told me about the above
- made my life easier.
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