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From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson)
Subject: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad)
Message-ID: <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com>
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Organization: Zenith Data Systems / Bull, Billerica MA USA
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 14:24:15 GMT
I just installed NetBSD 0.8 on my system (486, 16M, 345M IDE, no
network), and I found a few problems.
o /root/.profile has /usr/local in the PATH variable but not
/usr/local/bin.
o Somehow the installation process setup my /etc/fstab to
mount /dev/wd0e on //usr. I think this should be /usr.
o My system reboots spontaneously whenever it is halted.
386bsd used to wait for me to hit a key.
o /etc/passwd specifies group id 28 for user operator but
there is no group id 28 in /etc/group. Similarly, root has
a group id of 10 but no corresponding /etc/group entry
exists.
o There is no warning that choosing a swap partition of a
smaller size than system RAM size will disallow crash dumps.
I ran into that problem with 386bsd because I took the
default swap size of 5M even though I had 16M of RAM. I
wasted a lot of time tracking down the reason why I couldn't
get a crash dump. While NetBSD suggests 2x RAM size for the
swap partition, I think it would be helpful to potential
kernel hackers to know that crash dumps aren't possible if
the swap is too small.
o Maybe timed should be disabled if there is no network?
o "wdc0: extra interrupt" Anyone see this before? I usually
get this message during the fsck phase of a reboot.
Daniel R. Guilderson Zenith Data Systems / Bull
508-294-6612 300 Concord Road MA30/853A
d.guilderson@ma30.bull.com Billerica, MA 01821
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