I have had no problems running NetBSD 2.1 and earlier on my LCIII.   I have
used the traditional method in all instances and have met with success ever=
y
single time.   I did try an install of the pre-release 3.0 and had some
problems, although I haven't tried 3.0 since it was officially released.
Nor have I tried any of the RC releases.

On the 68k Macintosh, I never use anything other than the traditional
method.   If you don't have an FPU installed in your LCIII, go with the
softfloat build.

And I haven't experienced any of the ADB problems that you refer to.  To th=
e
best of my knowledge, it is the machines with the IOP's that have the ADB
problems. i.e IIfx, 950, etc.  Of course, I could be wrong about this.  I'm
just talking from my own personal experience.


> From: Raw Power <rawpower@tele2.be>
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:44:52 +0100
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: booting ... "no init", no "init.bak" ???
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> Did somebody write a manual so that you can install 3.0 ??
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> If I do it the old way, will it work ????
> with installer, etc ???
> I then take the kernels that are in the "sets" dir, and it should boot
> ???
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> The problem I also see on a LC III: it sometimes doesn't get past adb
> ...  was an err I saw in 1995 too (on a colour classic).
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> Marc
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> Op 8-jan-06 om 12:50 heeft Marco Trillo het volgende geschreven:
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>> Hi,
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>> It depends on your disklabel, but it is normally:
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>> /dev/sd0a --> root (/)
>> /dev/sd0b --> swap
>> /dev/sd0g --> user (/usr)
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>> Are you using the 3.0 release?
>> Its sysinst-based installer is currently broken. As an example, it
>> does not write a valid /etc/fstab file.
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>> I recommend booting the INSTALL kernel, opening a shell, and writing a
>> valid /etc/fstab.
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>> # Mount the root device
>> $ mount /dev/sd0a /mnt && cd /mnt
>> $ cat > etc/fstab
>> # fstab example for the above scheme
>> /dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1
>> /dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
>> /dev/sd0g /usr ffs rw 1 2
>> ^D
>> $ cd /
>> $ umount /mnt
>> $ exit
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>> Of course you should write a fstab according to your disk.
>> I.e.; if you have a partition /dev/sd0e which should be mounted in
>> /home,
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>> /dev/sd0e /home ffs rw 1 2
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>> If you don`t remeber the mount points of each partition, you can use
>> the "Install NetBSD to hard disk" to see the partition table and then
>> abort the installation.
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>> --
>> Marco.
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>> On Jan 8, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Raw Power wrote:
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>>> the root&usr is on the fifth partition.
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>>> =CCS
>>> that  /dev/sda5  or /dev/sd0e   ??
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>>> The booting process reads & execs kernel, then
>>> says
>>> booting from /dev/sd0a, swap on /dv/sd0b   ...
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>>> Marc
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