--- Timberwoof <mroeder@best.com> wrote:
> Howdy, folks!
> 
> I think I know the source of problem I was having ... When I started, I
> went to the NetBSD site and downloaded the very first appropriate-looking
> thing I found, namely the archives at
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/binary/. This contains all
> kinds of nice *.tar.gz files that BSD/Mac68k Installer is perfectly happy
> with. Installation went very smoothly until I came to the init problem I
> described earlier. Dave Huang has been helping me out, giving me stuff to
> check. It turns out that I got the wrong archive to start with; 1.4.4 isn't
> quite ready for prime time.
> 
> So I downloaded the files for the official 1.4.2 release ... and they're
> all *.gz files, and BSD/Mac68k Installer doesn't know what to do with them.
> It gives me some cryptic instructions about how to install them. The
> problem is, I don't have a working BSD system. Until I get either 1.4.2
> installed or the init problem solved, I'm dead in the water. :-(
> 
> So how do I install 1.4.2 from scratch? (Where are the "real" instructions?)
> 
> --
> Michael "Timberwoof" Roeder, Ice Hockey QA Engineer
> mroeder@infernosoft.com -- http://www.infernosoft.com
> 

The "install notes" may not be the best in the world but they do work.

They are at the bottom of the http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ page.

Read that and then give it a try.  


   Guy



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