Subject: Re: problems installing netbsd 1.5.1 on a raq
To: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
From: None <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 08/23/2001 03:27:04
grrr, time for bed, im starting to post nonsense...sorry
> > i recently ran into several problems installing netbsd 1.5.1 on a raq(1),
>
> Heh. Welcome to my world. NetBSD is actually pretty stable even on raq1
> hardware once you get it on there. Just don't run fdisk on any cobalt that
> has its DMA disabled, and when you need to fsck your ext2fs partitions
> don't expect the fsck_ext2fs program in the base dist to work particularly
> well. I'm really currious to know if you're clock on that raq runs fast
> like all mine do. It only happens on the raq1 cobalt hardware, but its a
> very noticable and constant drift.
>
i hate your world:)
i'll let it run for some days and tell you if the clock runs to fast
from pc world i can tell you that depending on chipset and motherboard,
clocks quite always run too slow (e.g. tyan trinity ~10 minutes/month,
tyan tiger 100 ~5 minutes/month) or too fast (e.g. gigabyte ga-55a
~5minutes/month)
after a reboot the clock has the correct time again
how much do your raq1 clocks differ per month?
i use ntp to always have the correct time
did you dare to use raqs under netbsd/cobalt in a colocation ?
marius