Subject: Re: sysinst on mac68k is really bad!
To: Paul Sander <paul@wakawaka.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/20/2004 21:01:22
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Paul Sander wrote:
> I've just spent the bulk of my afternoon fighting with the new installation
> kernel for NetBSD 1.6.2 on a Centris 650. I've come across three show-
> stoppers:
Sorry to hear that.
> - When installing from an ISO-9660 CD image, neither of the kernel
> install sets can be found because their names exceed the 8.3 limitation.
> In my case, the CD is produced using a version of Toast that does not
> support the Unix-style long names that the installer seems to expect.
That sounds really bad. Is it this image,
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.6.2/mac68kcd.iso
or one from another source?
> So, back to the old tools I go. How can I file bug reports for these
> problems?
http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/send-pr.html
The NetBSD 2.0 (Beta) installer is somewhat improved over 1.6.2, by
the way. This seems to be the latest snapshot:
ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200406120000/mac68k/
Frederick