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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!concert!quad.wfunet.wfu.edu!ac!nicastkj From: nicastkj@ac.wfu.edu (Kevin J. Nicastro) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD install Date: 10 Oct 1993 05:13:44 GMT Organization: Wake Forest University Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2985m8$7vg@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ac.wfunet.wfu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I've just spent 8 hours trying to install NetBSD .9 on my machine. I could kill someone. I was reluctant to even try considering it is related to 386bsd and remember how that one went. However, I really want to learn system programming and am too poor for a workstation, so I gave it a shot. Here is the problem: Everything seems to go fine, the installation of the first filesystem disk, and the kernel copy. There are, however a couple of error messages that I see. These being: ISA strayintr 7 -I assume this means IRQ7 is being a bully wd0c extra interrupt - probably a related problem /etc/rc : cannot open /etc/rc - well, that's cause it's not there. Other than that, the installation runs smoothly, however, when I go to boot off the hard drive for the first time, init seg faults. I must say that one time, it didn't and I actually installed the second installation floppy. But when I rebooted, I got an error saying that /etc/rc couldn't be found and it was going to try single user mode, and then I got a message repeated over and over that /bin/sh couldn't be executed properly. I should also mention that the base09 stopped a few seconds into the extraction with a message from tar saying that it was skipping to the next file. My architecture is as follows: 485/50DX with 8meg, 2 IDE's 130M and 240M (I'm just using the 130M for NETBSD right now), a Genoa VLB, and a plain old IDE controller card with one parallel, two serial and one game port. I have a feeling that if I could get this running, I'd be really really happy with it, but I can't afford to spend next weekend guessing at it again. So, if any of you had this problem and solved it, please email me and post a copy to the net so others in my sinking ship can attain enlightenment. As for now, it looks like I don't have a copy of OS2 2.1 for sale dirt cheap :) Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Kevin J. Nicastro nicastkj@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu 4203 Trace View Dr. #314 nicastro@mthcsc.wfu.edu Winston-Salem, NC 27106 (919) 896-1173