Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30

[RJ Kucia <rjkucia%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for trying that. I tried the same thing on my system (blank 1GB disk image at SCSI 1). The first time it was unformatted, and I tried to format it with the installer, but after creating the partitions it said there wasn’t enough space for them and crashed. Then I tried again after formatting the drive as HFS (giving it a partition map) and then repartitioning it in the installer again. That time the installer crashed immediately with a segfault. I didn’t get a stack trace either time unfortunately, but since it sounds like this method *should* work, I’ll try it again and take better notes about what I did and what happens.

-RJ

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 8:55 AM Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:

fwiw, I successfully installed netbsd mac68k under qemu, by booting an
install kernel from hfs, and running from there. I gave it a second
1GiB disk image for netbsd, which sysinst dutifully partitioned and
created an ffsv1 filesystem on.

The booter now successfully loads and boots the netbsd kernel from
the ffsv1 filesystem.

I haven't tried bigger disk images, but this setup is great for
experimentation, and easy enough to do.

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