Re: Trying to install?

[smurfd <smurf.daemon%mail.smurfd.me@localhost>]

On 2022-04-02 15:28, Rhialto wrote:
> On Thu 31 Mar 2022 at 22:56:54 +0200, smurfd wrote:
> > Then instead i tried to drop to boot prompt and ran the `boot -c` to be
> > able  to disable possibly graphics card detection (i read that somewhere).
> > came to UC>
> > Where it hang ...
> It is possible that you have a USB keyboard which may not always work at
> this point. Or in your case, maybe the nouveau driver doesn't let you
> get that far.

Many thanks for your reply!

Tried with another keyboard (unfortunately i have no ps2 ports for 
mouse/keyboard in that pc) without luck.
However i tried throwing out the nvidia card and replacing it with 
another (also nvidia) card, where nouveau driver did not complain. Then 
i ran into the screen going black issue. 
http://netbsd.org/ports/i386/faq.html#vid_mem_conflict But that i 
thought would be an easy fix with like : `consdev pc`   and then `boot` 
or just going back to the menu and chose the 1st option to "Install 
NetBSD", but no luck. Tried the onboard graphics, then the radeon driver 
panicked :D
We're of to a rocky start...

> > Question one, is there some way around this. can i from the boot prompt tell
> > it to ignore graphics cards. Plan was to not use X anyway. Need more info,
> > let me know.
> Yes, from the boot loader (see boot(8), userconf) and from boot.cfg you
> can give the commands that you can give to the userconf prompt. boot.cfg
> syntax looks a bit weird I think, since it requires a "keyword=..."
> style for everything, so you get something like "userconf=disable ehci*"
> (example taken from boot.cfg(5))

I guess this is after you have installed netbsd, and not in the 
installer itself? seems i cant drop to an actual shell from the 
installer menu or from the "drop to boot prompt". Tried both Ctrl+C and 
Ctrl+Z... saw in the installer after dropping to boot prompt, that you 
can do like `userconf disable nouveau0`

Think i will do some manaul readings and possibly look for a non-nvidia 
card, or see if i can restore another pc i had that is not AMD or 
install linux and use netbsd in a kvm virtual machine.

> > Question two, assuming i get further, is there some guide to create a local
> > pkgsrc mirror and tell several machines in your network to sync to that
> > instead of a internet mirror(feels unnecessary to sync over internet if you
> > have 5+ machines)?
> Yes that is possible too. Check pkg_install.conf(5) for the setting
> PKG_PATH. pkgin has its own settings in /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf.
> See manual page pkgin(1).
Awesome yeah that looks simple enough!

> > thanks in advance
> > br smurfd
> -Olaf.