Subject: boot/display/compiling problems
To: None <port-atari@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matti Koskimies <msk@bizar.dystopia.fi>
List: port-atari
Date: 02/18/1997 15:32:03
OK, after having skillfully destroyed and reformatted my hard drive as a
result of the first attempt (apparently because I was using ICD as a HD
driver), I managed to get NetBSD 1.2 installed on my Falcon/4MB. Being kinda 
new to this stuff though, I've encountered some more problems.

First of all, I'd like to know whether it's possible to make NetBSD boot
through an auto folder program (or something similar) instead of the .ttp
thing supplied with the installation package (which requires parameters,
making it unsuitable for the auto folder). This way, I could choose
between GEM and NetBSD from Xboot, and wouldn't need to have TOS load GEM
into memory first when loading NetBSD. Ofcourse, I could use the 
bootstrap, but apparently (from what the man page tells me) it doesn't 
give me a choice of booting GEM instead.
There's also something weird about the display in NetBSD. Sometimes it 
seems to get messed up, in that there are words missing and the left edge 
of the screen shows characters that don't belong there. This seems to 
be completely random - if it doesn't happen during the boot, it doesn't 
happen at all. I wonder if this is a problem with the supplied kernel?
Then, I've had trouble with installing Pine. After chmod a+x:ing the build
script, I ran it with the parameter neb for NetBSD. This seemed to work
fine, until it got to cc -g -O -pipe -DNFSKLUDGE   -c bezerk.c at which time
the thing (apparently) froze. It did cc mail.c too and didn't crash at
that point. Any idea of where the problem could be? 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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