--- Anthony Watters <awatters@attbi.com> wrote:
> I have the same sparc 5 and am trying to install
> netbsd and kde.

KDE and other software is why I want /usr on a 
different disk.  From the other posts it looks like
you  just install on ome disk and copy /usr.

> Interestingly enough, I have the same problem in
> getting a second drive to
> be recognized.
> 
> What I was hoping is .. once I get NetBSD working
> and get KDE
> compiled/installed , is that I can then come back to

I have KDE 3 on my OpenBSD SS 5.  For OpenBSD all of
the packages are available prebuild.  Don't know yet
if NetBSD has prebuild packages.

After several more failed installation attempts last
night I set the system to test all 256 Megs at start
up and sure enough, I had a bad memory simm.  I now
have NetBSD running off of one disk.  This might be
why I could never get OpenBSD to work on this system!!
 (It's on a 110 Mhz SS5.)

> the issue of the second
> SCSI HD.
> 
> Let me know if you get an answer to the drive
> problem.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anthony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert DiRosario
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:42 PM
> To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject: installation questions
> 
> 
> I'm trying to install 1.6.1 on a 170 Mhz (Turbo) SS5
> and I want to use two disks.  I want root and swap
> on
> the boot disk and /usr on a second disk.  The
> installation program only wants to work with one
> disk.
>  Should I just install /usr on the root partition
> and
> then just cp -R it to then second disk or is there
> some way to get the installation program to put /usr
> on the second disk?   I assume there arent any
> "special" files under /usr that cp would have
> problems
> with.  (My boot CD is the sparc only ISO image for
> 1.6.1 from one of the mirror sites.)
> 
> Late last night (very late) when I tried to install
> on
> a single disk I got some error message like boot
> block % block size != 0 or something like that. 
> (Due
> to the very late hour I dont recall the exact
> message!)  Do I need to write a BSD disk label
> before
> I try to install NetBSD?  (Its a Seagate disk with
> Seagate microcode.  I do have a Seagate disk with
> Sun
> microcode that I could use, but my RH Linux 6.2 SS20
> boots just fine from a Seagate drive.)
> 
> The system has the Sun 24 bit non-Sbus framebuffer.
> Is it any faster then the TGX framebuffer?  Why is
> there not yet a 24 bit driver for the 24 bit
> framebuffer?  Is the required documentation not
> available?
> 
> Once I get some memory for my unused SS20 Im most
> interested in seeing how SMP NetBSD on a SS20
> compares
> to SMP RH Linux on a SS20.
> 
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
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