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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix.gen.nz!chris Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [both] Install problems Message-ID: <1993Jun26.092214.18465@actrix.gen.nz> From: chris@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Double) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 09:22:14 GMT References: <C97G5y.7qz@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Organization: Actrix Networks Lines: 35 In article <C97G5y.7qz@ulowell.ulowell.edu> you write: > Hacking around (and making sure I had a GOOD backup), I came up with the > theoretically correct parameters. I entered those, and upon allocationg > everything left over to /usr, the script broke after the (y/n) question on > proceeding with the error > > 363 Syntax Error: Unterminated quoted string > > Inspection of the file didn't seem to turn up anything, but cat is not much > of a file browser. Yep, I'm very familiar with this happening. The following is how I got NetBSD to install. 1. Use PFDISK instead of Dos FDisk. PFDISK should show up using an Archie search. It is a public domain FDISK type program that comes with Linux. This will give you the starting and ending cylinders, etc. You should also mark the partition that you wish to install NetBSD as partition type '165'. This is covered in the FAQ (Send me mail if you can't get the faq or are having problems here). 2. In the 'install' script there is an unterminate quote character (surprise!) in the do/while loop that asks for the yes/no answer. As a result you never get prompted and it bombs out. I fixed this by (in Dos) taking the original '.fs' file, using a file hex editor to edit it to include the missing quote and then reapplying it to the disk using rawrite. After this NetBSD worked fine. A bit frustrating that this seemed to have slipped through the release. Any problems, let me know. Regards, Chris Double. chris@actrix.gen.nz