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From: mrz5149@rit.cs.rit.edu (M. R. Zucca)
Subject: MacBSD, Syquest and X
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 23:22:10 GMT
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I've been attempting to intall MacBSD on my IIvx so that it wil boot
off of a Syquest EZ135 (I can hear the groans already :)
I know that there are some problems but it seems to boot OK but I seem
to be having a problem installing the X distribution onto the drive either
from the Mac side or from BSD.
First off, the gz version used to zip X doesn't work with the 1.0 installer
but after an unzip using MacGZ, I get a nice 28 meg tar file. Subsequently
trying to untar this baby works until a particular file is encountered
and then the installer crashes with an error 11. BSD does something similar
by puking into the debugger.
However, it seems that the tar file is sort of OK since I can extract it
on another machine running OSF and SunTAR on the mac doesn't seem to mind
it.
What's going on?
P.S. is there a more stable version of the kernal for an EZ135? I'm currently
using netbsd.please.test.me from Puma.
Thanks.
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