Subject: Re: *sniffle* *kick Installer 1.1f*
To: NetBSD/mac68k Mailing List <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Unix Friend <dearman@kendaco.telebyte.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/09/1997 14:55:05
About getting rid of the mac side...
How do you do this and still have netbsd boot?
Can it be done, if so how?
Plus when i try to format my MAXTOR drive with mkfs it says bad stuff
something like 1024 blocks per sec
then it says SCSI() #10 Retry 0,1,2, ect.
help please
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, SamMaEl wrote:
>
> > <tail of woe snipped>
> >
> > Anyways, this brings a few questions to mind. 1. What is up with
> > the Installer?!? I've gotten nothing but grief from every Installer I have
> > used since I first attempted installation back in January. It does NOT
> > like my drive I guess... I can give some specs for it if someone wants
> > them, and might know what is wrong. 2. Do I need to download the 1.3_ALPHA
> > X distribution, or will the 1.2G that I already have work alright? I'd
> > like to save a couple hours of downloading if possible... not to mention
> > the bandwidth ;-)
>
> 1. I don't know why the installer doesn;t like your drive. But I might
> suggest that, once you get NetBSD up again, you dispense with the Mac-side
> installer completely and install newer updates from within NetBSD.
>
> 2. I haven't seen a 1.3_ALPHA X distribution. Regardless, the 1.2G code
> works just fine (I'm using it right now).
>
> > Luckily, from all of the troubles I have had with the Installer, I
> > have a dedicated MacOS partition to hold tarballs and various things I
> > download to install into NetBSD... like pine, X, the kernel sources, etc.
> > I suggest it to anyone with similar problems ;-)
>
> As I mentioned above, once you get NetBSD up and stable, turn that MacOS
> partition into a NetBSD partition and do your upgrades etc. from NetBSD.
> Even easier...
>
>
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