Hello All:

As a newbie I am trying one of everything and crashing and burning every
other step. All part of the adventure. But if a kind soul wouldn't mind
imparting some of their hard earned wisdom I would be most appreciative 8-).

Lately I tried to compile my own kernel and install it, as a prelude to
messing about with the code. I copied the GENERIC configuration file and
made what seemed to be appropriate changes. After an ~20 hour compile (and
one or two false starts, forgetting to select CODA files) I had a kernel.
When attempting to boot it the booter gets to the "and I sez to him" point,
where the normal boot commandeers the screen and starts spewing NetBSD boot
messages, and freezes. Hmmm. After some wrestling I recovered the previous
kernel and am back up and running.

So some questions:

What would cause that kind of freezing behavior in booting a kernel that had
compiled "successfully", or at least with no errors or warnings?

Where can I find a complete list of config file options, information about
what they do, and a "recommended settings list" for a Mac IIsi with 64M ram,
SCSI devices (disk, cdrom, zip), mc68882 fpu, and a nubus Ethernet card?

I have been using a GENERICSBC 1.5 kernel, and that is working relatively
fine. However after the kernel swapping incident described above I started
getting a new error messages on boot:

WSCONSCFG: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: cannot allocate memory
WSCONSCFG: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: cannot allocate memory
WSCONSCFG: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: cannot allocate memory
WSCONSCFG: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: cannot allocate memory
WSCONSCFG: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: cannot allocate memory
WSCONSCFG: WSMUXADD_DEVICE: invalid argument

What would cause this?

Also on an unrelated topic how can I ftp NetBSD packages. I am not up on the
net yet, and even if I were my slow modem/ISP would preclude downloading
large (> 1-2K . . . kidding 8-) files. So I want to ftp tarballs at work and
copy them to a zip to take home. I tried to ftp from ftp.netbsd.org and some
of the mirrors but could not get it to work. That is the sites seemed to be
dead, or dead slow, and would not even return the README, or package
index.html. What is the recommended method to get packages other than doing
a make in /usr/pkgsrc and automagically downloading from the net?

Thanks very much in advance.

James