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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news2.halcyon.com!nocmac.halcyon.com!user From: wdickson@halcyon.com (William R. Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Installing OpenBSD? Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:37:11 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <wdickson-2611961037110001@nocmac.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nocmac.halcyon.com Hi all, Does anybody have any advice for installing OpenBSD over an existing NetBSD 1.2 system? All went well as I installed everything but base20 and etc20; after installing base20, the system couldn't find its shells anymore. Booting into single-user mode, it would attempt to restart the shell over and over, reporting a problem with the rc file. So, I reinstalled netbsd's base12 file. Now it boots into single-user mode just fine, but when I try to run a program (say, 'more' or any of the network daemons if I try to boot into multi-user mode), the programs all crash with a "bad system call" error. At this point, I've preserved /etc, /usr/local, the user directories, and my custom kernel, deleted everything else and started reinstalling 1.2 from scratch. But I'd like to try OpenBSD 2.0...if anybody's got any advice on trying this, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Bill -- __________________________________________________________________________ William R. Dickson - Technical Support wdickson@halcyon.com Northwest Nexus - Professional Internet Services Bellevue, WA USA Voice: 206 455-3505 Web: http://www.halcyon.com/ Info: info@halcyon.com