Subject: Re: Latest softfloat build?
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/25/2004 17:10:53
Hi,
I have no idea. What system is this on?
Could you try the install kernel from RC4 maybe?
Thanks!
cheers
bruce
Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:44:20 -0600 (CST)
> From: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
> Subject: Re: Latest softfloat build?
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
>
> Sorry to reply to my own messge.
>
> I have found softflaot here:
> ftp://ftp.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-2.0_RC5-mac-softfloat.
>
>
> However, I am having some weird issues when installing. It boots up OK.
>
> Then some weird issues occur. Whenever it tries to ping, either from the
> installer testing the network, or from /bin/sh I see no output, and when I
> control-C I see a message saying zero packet transmitted (or received).
> That is zero TRANSMITTED. Strange...
>
> Then I have problems when FTPing. I had trouble even connecting to one of
> my own LAN machines for some reason (though it worked fine from any other
> lan machine, and the network setting were correct, including the netmask).
>
> I was able to connect directly to both ftp.apple.com and to the ftp server
> above. I started to try to manually download the sets from that server.
> But every just locked up. I could not control C out of the ftp transfer
> (it got maybe 20% through).
>
> Any clues? I see these weird lockups seemingly related to networking.
>
> I am botting with the 2.0 booter from a small macos partition on the
> insternal drive. I also booted from a network drive to no avail.
>
> Thanks,
>
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