Hey all,

thanks to the kind help, I was able install NetBSD it took me a bit to 
figure out the /targetroot thing and I read hauke's mail too late.
I used the utility shell to create and mont the disk and then resumed 
the installation. ^Z would have made everything easier.

Here some sketches:

- the kernel handles disk-full situations really really bad. That is a 
kernel panic and a drop in the debugger. I Learned that since my 350MB 
drive is too small to do a full install. SHouldn't things die a bit more 
graceful? I made a picture of the error and a trace in the debugger, for 
the curious ones.

I redid an install without X and this time it helped. I rebooted, left 
the machine unattended. I came back after 2 hours maybe. I found the 
disk under activity! like swapping! and I was logged in no processes 
were launched to by me. I did a top and saw no swap was used. I made ps 
ax and the box hung. Bad bad!

ANyway I rebooted and the machine seemed to work I couldn't reproduce 
the problem. I logged in, created a user, almost everything as expected.

But the compiler is not working! although "cc" says "no input files" 
trying to compile something yields a segmentation fault.

I have a IIci, so I have 68030+68882 thus I wouldn't expect any 
particular problems ! This is a smaller test drive, since I didn't want 
to ruin the existing install I have on my MacII and I can't install from 
there, 8Mb of ram are not enough for sysinst (sysinst should activate 
swap once it formats it) so I hooked up this drive to the IIci. this way 
I could test both computers and even compare speed among 1.6 and 2.0 on 
the II. I plan to keep this drive as "spare" and do some install tests 
in the future. It really seems that this 2.0 series got too little 
testing. I bet it works for some people, but overall it is a bit flaky, 
starting from the install. And without compilers. hmm...


then... I had another bitter surprise. The disk is too small to unpack 
the whole pkgsrc tarball :( and there are no 68k packages for 2.0.2. 
Thus installing small tools like "wget" proved painful... A "stripped 
down" pkgsrc could be thought of. I bet no one runs KDE or GNOME or even 
mozilla on a 68k! although some libraries could be used as dependencies 
by other packages...

cheers,

R