Re: Aranym

[Miro Kropacek <miro.kropacek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

let's share some installation experiences... I can confirm current
snapshot really works on CT60, it was really great to see netbsd
booting. However, I was unable to install it because of that strange
installer. I've followed installation steps very carefully but I
always ended in one of following:

1. Partitions, sizes, types etc everything done, question about disk
label (for wd0, default value was manufacturer's name, i.e. Samsung
something), enter, then I see command "disklabel ..." and under that
error "disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Device not configured"

2. Once I was very lucky, I got as far as making filesystem, I've seen
command for creation, then enter and I was back in startup screen

3. Error, very early, cannot open /etc/disktab or so

I've used 'SWP' method although I have a lot of RAM, it's much easier
to install it from gemdos hdd than floppy. My HDD is 150 GB, C: is
gemdos (but later I gave up and tried everything, i.e. no AHDI
partition support), D: is SWP, E: was later assigned as NBD ... Is it
any important I overwrite whole disk during installation, i.e. also
that 'SWP', i.e. root for installer ?

Is there anyone performing similar installation? Btw generally that
installer isn't very stable, I've seen segmentation faults, floating
point exceptions (by 'reboot' command!) etc... when I tried more
advance usage.


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