Re: ed to isntall NetBSD-6.1_RC2 on a VS3100 M38

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

24M should be enough for the install to complete.

When sysinst starts can you exit to the shell and run disklabel -i?

On 30 March 2013 10:53, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> HI,
> I've got some Vaxstations lately and today I've tried to install
> NetBSD-6.1_RC2 on a VS3100M38 with 24Mbytes of RAM.
> Disk is an IBM DCAS 34330, 4Gbyte.
>
> I can do what I want, the install.ram is crashing while labeling the disk,
> regardless if I have overwritten the disk with zeros before ot not.
>
> This is the last screen:
>
>      Status: Command ended on signal
>     Command: disklabel -w -r -f /tmp/disktab sd0 'DCAS-34330     '
>      Hit enter to continue
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> uid 0, pid 7, command disklabel, on /: file system full
>
> /: write failed, file system is full
> pid 7 (disklabel): user write of 9272@0x1a2000 at 67912 failed: 28
>
> -----------
>
> I had all kinds of similar errors in the tris before that, illegal
> instrcutions and so on.
>
> The disk is ok, OpenBSD is running fine on that beast and I'm unable to
> install more RAM as the two boards that are currently in that machine to
> get more than 24MB.
>
> What is the right way to install NetBSD on such a M38?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Holm
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