Following up:

Okay, my really bad.  Disks created with EasyCD Creator 4
don't work.

Damn.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Graham [mailto:greywolf@siteROCK.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:57 PM
To: 'port-i386@netbsd.org'
Subject: This is bizarre.


For some reason, I am encountering a really strange problem.

For starters, I completely hosed my NetBSD box.  Okay, fine,
my bad, I'll reinstall.

Download arch/i386/snapshot/20000213 from ftp.netbsd.org.

Can't get to my other wd drive, because I skrogged the disklabel,
or some such.  As soon as I access any heavy data on the disk,
the transfer wedges the system hard.  Have to powercycle.  Repeat
until seeing pink.

Try to configure network.  "Can't configure network because the
network device is not configured into your kernel."  I have a 3c905something
in here -- the install kernel doesn't have drivers for it?!?  This makes
things a big PITA.

Okay, fine.  I bite the bullet and decide to try doing it via floppies.
Turns
out it doesn't want raw images, it wants files on msdos floppies...

...and even though I've only managed to generate kern.aa and kern.ab
from the base set, it wants kern.ac as well.

Now I'm stuck -- until I get the brilliant idea to burn the .tgz files to a
CD-R.
Great.  That's done.  I go through the rigmarole of installing Yet Again.
Now the distribution gzip is telling me (I've done it manually and through
sysinst):

	gunzip: stdin not in gzip format

and so tar and pax puke.

I know the images on the CD-R are okay, because I've summed them
both on the CD-R and off.  Well, hell, without gzip working, I'm screwed.
So I pull gunzip off the base.tgz and try to use that instead.

	gunzip: stdin not in gzip format

So...um, I'm stuck now.  Anyone need any more information to help
with this?  Can anyone help with this?  I seem to be able to read the
stuff off the CD into a local directory, and it seems to have the same size,
but, dammit,
houston, we have a problem, and I'm not sure what it is.

Any help at all is appreciated!



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