Subject: Re: New user, new install
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/09/1996 09:46:53
>
> On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Michael Rousseau wrote:
>
> > I have just installed NetBSD/mac v1.1 on my IIci (32/580) with standard
> > internal Mac video and RGB 13" monitor.
> >
> > During installation, I got unexpected EOF errors installing base11,
> > netbsd11, and etc11. I escaped from these and tried it with several
> > distributions from several sources. Adam Delu recommended untarring the
> > gzipped files first and doing a "zinstall" from the Mini-Root shell. I
> > haven't done this yet.
>
> Try gunzipping them, untarring them, retarring them, and giving it
> another round. That shouldn't happen, though. When you downloaded them,
> you did set your ftp software to binary mode, right?
If you did a binary ftp & everything else is ok, you might try giving the
installer more memory (in the Get Info window). I seem to remember that I
had to up its memory size to 1000K when installing 1.1. Other people have
needed more memory than that.
Good luck!
Bill