Subject: Re: installer1.0
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@remus.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/10/1995 11:20:58
> > Then I get this error:
> > 
> > Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> > /:bad dir ino 2 at offset 0; mangled entry
> > bad dir
> > 
> > I had been getting some fsck errors so I converted to level2 (fsck -c 2)
> > but that had no effect on the installer on MacOS.
> 
> It should have had an effect.  You're seeing it, above.  The installer
> doesn't grok level 2 ffs.  If it worked, you were lucky.
> 
> The below is not for the faint of heart, and I may or may not be able
> to help you if you have a problem with the below procedure.  [...]
> 
> I recommend booting into 1.0, single-user mode and using hfs to get
> the files into NetBSD.  Extract them from there. [...]

As someone who accidentally tried to mount a level 2 ffs in the
Install utility, I think there's a good chance that the root fs was
corrupted when mounted...

ken