Subject: Re: HELP! Installing NetBSD 1.1 On Sun3/50M
To: Michael P Urban <urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov>
From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/15/1996 16:47:32
According to Michael P Urban:
>
> I must be doing something stupid, but cannot for the life of me
> imagine what it might be. I am attempting to install NetBSD 1.1 on my
> Sun-3/50 at home. The RAMDISK kernel boots, prints its welcome
> message, then it says "PID 3 killed: No support for floating point"
> (or some message very close to that; sorry, this is from memory), and
> just lays there inertly.
>
> This is not encouraging.
>
> Does this sound familiar, or am I really the first person to actually
> try to install this from scratch?
The early Sun 3/50 machines had the Motorola 68881 FPU chip optional
(as a cost savings measure -- recall, this was Sun's low cost/entry-
level product back in 1985 or there-abouts).
You probably have to build NetBSD the other way (or grab "the other"
release -- the one with out floating point support, if there is such
a beast) or go out and buy a Motorola 68881 chip and stick it into
your Sun 3/50M... :-)
Regards,
web...
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