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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-mic!pita!scott From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) Subject: Re: more netbsd 0.8 woes Message-ID: <scott.739562746@pita> Nntp-Posting-Host: pita.cns.ucla.edu References: <1993Jun7.182848.779@mic.ucla.edu> <CGD.93Jun7220808@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 8 Jun 93 11:16:51 PDT Lines: 49 cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >if people want us to answer questions, they should send them to >netbsd-help@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu... we're really too busy >to be scanning news for bug reports... I'll do that, my postings are mainly to help others starting work with NetBSD from making the same mistakes. >In article <1993Jun7.182848.779@mic.ucla.edu> scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) writes: >> - halt doesn't seem to wait for a keypress >was a bug in one of the distribution floppy sets; i've not made a new >set yet... >> - installing along with a DOS partition seems to be >> an experience in itself -- I've had the partition table get >> clobbered badly >i didn't know this when i wrote the install notes, but it *really* >is a good idea to have the partition you want to install NetBSD on >be labeled with partition type a5... the way you do this is >is with DOS partition editor; i dunno any more than that. Yes, it works OK if you prelabel the partition A5. I use Norton Disk Editor. >> - disk labelling after the initial install on a second drive >> gives the boot doesn't leave room for partition table error >do you have the latest version of the boot blocks from the install1 >disk? read the various readmes in the directory with the >installation disks; that should help... >> I haven't seen these: >> - killing off syslogd causes the console to hang >oh, you will... 8-) I should have said: "I haven't seen these posted on the net". I personally did hit the syslogd problem. I turned on the scsi_debug flag in the kernel and decided to kill syslogd to get rid of its repetitive messages. Instant grief. Oops. -- ---------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Network Services cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu