On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:15, oski wrote:
> Has been frustrating trying during 10 days to install 2.0 in my z50,
> without any success.
> I can only try to install using 2x CF or ftp
>  
> a. 2xCF. If  I try to mount the files before running sysinst, I get
> the messagge “No disklabel” and the computer is locked and only a hard
> reset is possible. 
> If I try to fetch the files from the unmounted msdos files, sysinst
> runs the command:     /sbin/mount –rt ffs /dev/wd1e /mount2, but then
> I get the following messagge:  “mount_ffs: /dev/wd1e  on mnt2 : 
> incorrect superblock. I do not now how to go ahead with this.
>  
> b. ftp. Tried 10 – 15 times a day during the last 10 days!!!!!   80%
> of the trials do not manage to login. When login 9 out of 10
> stalled!!!!!
> When I finally manage to be ready to install a basic kern+base+etc 
> the INSTALL is stopped with this messagge: “Stopped in pid 8.1
> (aionded) at  0x100: invalid address”.
>  
> If by any chance I manage to go any further, then the system get
> locked when 13% of base has installed and then hard reset again. 
>  
> I do not know what I am missing or doing wrong, because the Install is
> easy menu driven.
>  
> Can anybody give me a helping hand?
> Is anybody with a z50 in the UK willing to do a full install in my 
> 1GB CF?

The mailing list archive has lots of z50-related threads posted in the
past two months or so, in particular this one:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcmips/2005/01/20/0005.html

Matt