RE: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh

[Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost>]

I just did another install on another Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver) I have and this time I noticed that unlike last time that when I grabbed pkgsrc.tar.gz that I needed to manually bootstrap pkgsrc. That is, I tried to build hfsutils and got a cascade of errors about digest, cwrappers, etc and something about not being able to create /ftp/pub?

So I cd'd to /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap and ran ./bootstrap and after it ran to completion everything ran fine. hfsutils built ok and everything proceeded normally.

I have no idea why I needed to do this when seemingly in the past I did not have to? If anyone has some thoughts as to why this happened I am certainly curious to resolve the small mystery.

Relatedly, is there any reason why hfsutils binaries aren't just packaged with the installer anyway?

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost> 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2020 2:54 PM
To: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh

I installed 9.1 on a Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver) recently. I wrote up my installation notes here. http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/netbsd/2020/11/30

I don't think there is anything terribly new in that article to anyone familiar with this port. Well, one thing might be that I did boot the installer off of a USB drive which I hadn't seen written about before and doesn't get mentioned in the official installation notes.

If anyone has any comments or edits on what I wrote please let me know. I was hoping my article might be somewhat friendlier to someone brand new to this port.

[My apologies to anyone possibly seeing this message twice. I thought I had sent it back in November but apparently it did not go through the first time?]