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From: andrew@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Andrew Moore)
Subject: New NetBSD user lost in new installion land
Message-ID: <andrew.745052041@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
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Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:54:01 GMT
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(386/387 machine ISA bus with 1542C controller 8Mb of memory, EGA
display system)
I suppose the first (silly) question is is there an FAQ to help guide us
through the installation/traps for young players etc apart from the
INSTALL_NOTES file in the distribution ?
I seem to be getting more than my fair share of errors.
(apart from the install script on disk one erroring out before it
actually did anything :-) )
In particular during the /etc/rc (after a successful installation)
"Rebuilding databases"
an error condition will occur and the system goes (quickly) into a
reboot cycle (I dont actually get to see the error printed, too quick.
Umm, I also can only get the GENERICISA kernel to compile, I tried to
modify it (just to prove to myself I had "everything" installed) and, no
go. (reporting too big for 640k with bss)
I suppose I am used to Mips/Sparc style machines so I assume the kernel
is simply too big, are there patches I can apply or other incantations I
can make for this to work ? (I can be confident a percentage of the
kernel is unnecessary (if it is GENERIC) however I was a just trying to
increase the number of pty's ( to 16) )
Ho Hum,
I shouldn't ask this but, I have noticed a distinct lack of traffic
through the 386* groups (not non-existant, just low) I assume there are
more than ten people actually using this OS ?
Thanks for your ideas,
Andrew.
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Andrew Moore | Department of Robotics and Digital Technology
Ph: +61 3 565 3218 | Clayton Campus, Monash Uni, VIC 3168, Australia
Fax: +61 3 565 3574 | Internet E-Mail: andrew.moore@rdt.monash.edu.au
Be interested in the future, you will be spending the rest of your life there.