On, I ran in to some problems.

1. another bug. in costom instalation, the "X contrib" option toggles "X
server" and the "X programmming" toggles "X contrib". there is no way to
toggle X programming. everything before X contrib works fine.


2. ran in to a problem with the binaries. I copied
kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz to sets/kern.tgz. the download section complained
that kern.tgz was not found, so that is how I solved the problem.  the
problem I ran in to is this. here is the console output:

Extracting file /mnt/usr/INSTALL/kern.tgz
paX: not found
There was an error in extracting the file /mnt/usr/INSTALL/kern.tgz.  That
means some files were not exteacted correctly snd your system will not be
complete.
The instillation is aborting.

Press CR to continue after a short delay.: <CR>
trap type 0x7: pc=0xf0007c14 mpc=0xf0007c18 psr=900ac6<S,PS>
kernel: alignment fault trapStopped at   _proc_trampoline:       jmp1
    [%10 + %g0], %o7
db>

that's the end of it. I thought it was because the file was a invalid
format. I gunziped the kernel, tared it up, then gziped it again. same
result . Any idea what is going on, or is this another bug?

Thanks,
-Mike


On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Mike Ekholm wrote:

> heh, did not know 1.3.2 was out, will do that then.
> 
> BTW, my specs:
> Sun Sparc 1 with 16MB RAM, quantum 210S drive (210MB) monocrome frame
> buffer/19"display, type 4 keyboard,mouse. 
> 
> For some reason I could not get this machine to boot with any other
> floppies. NetBSD (1.2.1 to 1.3.1) boot disks would prompt me for a
> timezone when sysinst started and crash, FreeBSD would dump the core (or
> try, read only filesystem) then go back to the openboot prompt. Redhat
> (used as a last resort only) would go back to openboot prompt after
> detecting the hard drives.
> 
> Man am I glad that NetBSD is stable, i never want to install and OS on
> this box again :-)
> 
> Well, after I get this downloaded and continue installation, i will know
> if it went good or of any problems.
> 
>  -Mike
> 
> -- 
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>             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> 

 -Mike

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