Here's a few answers...

1) you're booting in single-user mode and mounting your root filesystem
read-only. That's why you can't mkdir, and that's when it's asking your
for the shell path. When you're in MacOS, go into the booter, but *don't*
launch netbsd. (hit "cmd-." if necessary to stop booting). Then  go into=20
preferences, and select "multi-user."

2) You probably have the wrong device-ids for your disks. NetBSD doesn't=20
use SCSI ID. It just uses the order it finds the disks, which I believe=20
is the order that they appear in the chain.=20

Hope this helps some.

-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
email: dorfman@pentagon.mil
(last resort email: avram@pobox.com)

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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Mikko Tanner wrote:

> Hi!
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> I have a friend who has problems with NetBSD. He has a Mac IIci and has b=
een
> asking for my help for weeks now, but I don't know much and we thought ab=
out
> sending these questions to you. I wish you could unveil at least a couple=
 of
> these problems so that he could get his software working.
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> Here's his post in entirety (which I translated so blame my bad English):
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> At first here's my machinery: Mac IIcx, 8MB RAM and a Quantum Lightning 3=
49MB
> hard disk (in a separate casing, ID 6) containing the NetBSD/68k software=
.=20
> (And yes, I have installed the correct version for 68k Macs.)
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> A)
> Why doesn't the login prompt appear when I boot into Linux in the single =
user
> mode? It just keeps asking "Enter pathname of shell or return for sh" and=
 I
> answer /bin/sh. Is that the correct path?
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> Then the #-mark appears. Do I have to login again with the login command?=
 If I
> try "login root", then it asks the type of terminal (vt220), presents a m=
essage
> and then "Don't login as root, use su."  But when I type "mail" the machi=
ne
> just says "no mail for root". Well, does the "Login:" prompt have to appe=
ar
> after bootup, or just that #-mark? Do the mac's networking capabilities h=
ave to
> be installed prior to bootup?
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> Why can't I use mkdir to create new directories in for example root's hom=
e
> directory? Or in anywhere else? It just presents me with message "permiss=
ion
> denied".
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> Is my installation correct after all or have I screwed up something?
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> B)
> Where are the definitions for search paths, user characteristics etc? For
> example adduser and mkdir won't work.=20
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> C)
> Which are the mailing lists for 68k mac users? I would like to mail a few
> questions there, too.
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> I ask for a quick response for I have struggled with this problem for a f=
ew
> weeks now... I'm desperate, so to say.
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> To be continued:
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> I found out that when I boot up NetBSD, it won't mount sd2a which contain=
s root
> but it changes root device to sd9a ?-o.=20
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> I inspected the file /etc/fstab.sd which should mount partitions but it r=
eads
> that root is /dev/sd0a, swap is /dev/sd0b etc. Is that a preference for M=
acOS
> and NetBSD being on the same physical disk. And when I boot into NetBSD i=
t
> makes whole system read-only so I cannot make any changes, invoke adduser=
 or
> mkdir etc. How could I transfer files from NetBSD's partitions to MacOS's=
?
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> I tried to use installer to unmount sd2a and mount sd9a instead but unmou=
nt
> didn't work... What's the correct syntax for unmount? Which ID number
> corresponds to that sd9? Perhaps if we could make the ID match that sd9, =
we
> could make it work, too? Strange still, Installer insists with disklabel =
that
> that hard disk is sd2, but when I boot up it finds it as sd9... ?-o
> How could I unmount sd2a and mount sd9a instead?
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> How to install the whole software in a physically separate disk? I though=
t
> about taking MacOS hard disk off the bus but how could I boot into Linux =
then?
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> Esa Kivel=E4
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> email: Esa_Kivel=E4@fimug.fi
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