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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NetBSD install1.fs1 chokes Date: 30 Apr 1993 16:56:20 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 57 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rrlnk$6dp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1rr0ke$snp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <1rr0ke$snp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, I wrote: >Trying to boot [install.fs1] it yields the typical messages that appear > when no kernel >is being found (like ...trying boot, trying 386bsd.old, .alt, vmunix etc..) > >There is a README telling that the install disks are broken but why are they >standing still around? > >Is there a replacement? Or a fix? A patch to patch the patch? > Sorry for the noise but a simple README with some instructions would have helped and would have prevented unnecessary asking. I found out that I had also to make a kernel floppy. So far so good. I found that the NetBSD does use the wdc/fdc patch. Exactly this patch has caused big trouble with running two drives in the past. I got my second IDE drive trashed several times. What was this patch good for? Didn't 0.1 provide for two drives? This patch allows for two or more fdc/wdc controllers, but who has 4 IDE drives (two controllers) or two floppy controllers? After having installed the two install disks from NetBSD suddenly my wd0e got a !! bogus superblock !! and went into the nirvana. As usual I did not write down the superblock backup numbers but I believe it would not have helped anyway :-(. I suspect that there is still something broken with the IDE drive handling or with partition setup. My drive is a CONNER 120 MB (I chose 762/8/39 as cyl/heads/sectors) - Is this OK? Another remark about the NetBSD installation procedure: Why is the user asked so much about disk partitioning? This is distracting new users and is not good advertising for EZ setup. Especially cylinder boundary computation could be left to the computer to calculate once the user has given some swap partition percentage (or MBs) (the default should be increased a bit - 5MB really wasn't much. 16 MB should be default today), then some percentages (MBs) for the other partitions should be asked for and off it goes. But these cylinder boundary calculations are really anachronisms. Leave that to a computer program !!!!!!! The next problem I had was that the wd8003 was found but ftp after doing a ifconfig by hand did not work. I'm just mentioning that - the cause may be elsewhere - but I once installed easily on that machine using dist-wd800.fs and now things are not a bit easier. It would be very easy to add a question for the Internet address and broadcast address/netmask into the install script and issue an ifconfig command automatically in the install script. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.