On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Ken A. Baker wrote:

> Dear Brian and NetBSD'ers:
>         I have downloaded NetBSD/68k from ftp.netbsd.org (version 1.1) and
> installed the base,kernel, and etc packages into a A/UX Root slice on a
> Quantum LPS340S formatted with Silverlining 5.5.4.

Did you install a kernel?  Performa 600... what's that equivalent to?  It 
might need one of the Wittkoski kernels, though I'm not familiar enough 
with that model to know.  Maybe someone else can answer that.  
Regardless, though, it needs *a* kernel of some sort (e.g. netbsd11 or 
netbsd.11.26).  You'll probably have to use MacGzip to decompress the 
kernel file under MacOS and use the installer to cpin the file, since 
they don't ever seem to be in tar archives.

> When I try and boot
> using Booter 1.8 It lets me set the values and then I do boot now. It gives
> me the Launch Window, prints all of the enviornment variables, asks if it's
> ok to boot. I hit the ok button, about 2 seconds after that it completely
> freezes the machine. I have to hit the reboot switch to get back.
>         Since I'm very new at NetBSD I don't know what to look for as the
> problem here. I am familiar with Unix since I work as a Performance
> Engineer at ADP in that realm. It seems either the cutover to execute the
> kernel fails or the address it's going for isn't there.

Did you separately install a kernel?  It's not in the base package, 
though that's not too clear from some of the FAQ's.  Is it called 
netbsd?  If not, did you change the name in the booter dialogue to match 
the new name (it's recommended that you just rename it netbsd when you 
cpin the file).

> I do have a real
> fpu in this machine and I know that works. Of all of the envorinment vars
> and comments printed out I don't know which ones are significant. I do have
> them all in two screen snapshots.

If it goes through without any complaints except perhaps the not tested 
on your machine dialogue, then probably none of them are important.

>         So if anyone can give me some pointers of what to go and do or look
> for I'd appreciate it. Please email me since I'm not on any mailing lists
> (yet...)
> Thanks!
> Ken
> 
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> Ken A. Baker
> pp000955@interramp.com (Home email address)
> kab@plaza.ds.adp.com (Work email address)
> Researching Baker, Bennett, McGonigal, and Drake
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