Subject: RE: Install question
To: 'Manuel Bouyer' <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/20/2003 20:36:24
That did it, using sun-ss5. Thanks! I am having some issues booting
after the install though. I tried "boot disk1:a", and a is the root
partition, but it says it can't find the file "netbsd". Any suggestions
anyone?
--Brian
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From: port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org]
On Behalf Of Manuel Bouyer
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:32 PM
To: Brian McCann
Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Install question
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:17:14AM -0500, Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all. I'm having some issues installing NetBSD on my SPARCStation
> 20, and please forgive me if I use some of the wrong terminology since
> this is my first time dealing with a SPARCStation. I downloaded and
> installed OpenBSD, got it running with few problems, worked great, but
> I want SMP support, and someone suggested that NetBSD had it. So I'm
> trying to install it so I can update to -current and try it out.
> However, the install screens are going crazy. For example, as I sit
> here, it's downloading the packages from ftp.netbsd.org , and the
> screen has TONS of garbage on it, and only some readable text...almost
> like the video buffer is overflowing. BUT, the video card ran X fine
> in OpenBSD. Can someone help me out? Am I doing something wrong?
Looks like wrong terminal type. Is it serial console ? If so, you most
probably want vt100. If graphic display, try sun-ss5 instead of sun
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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