Subject: port-amiga/1802: Amiga installation document errors
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/01/1995 12:53:16
>Number: 1802
>Category: port-amiga
>Synopsis: There are a few errors and omissions in the Amiga INSTALL document
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 1 08:05:00 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ignatios Souvatzis & Christian Baurnfeind
>Organization:
>Release: 1.1
>Environment:
System: NetBSD beverly.rhein.de 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (INSTALL) #0: Fri Nov 24 13:47:14 EST 1995 chopps@coffee.emich.edu:/exp/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/INSTALL amiga
>Description:
- xstreamtodev takes double -- for the long form of options,
- switching the scsi bus to "never ask for sync transfers" should
be documented
- INSTALL should tell the user to mount adosfs readonly
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install following the instructions
>Fix:
Diff is by Christian Bauernfeind.
*** INSTALL Fri Dec 1 10:15:16 1995
--- new/INSTALL Fri Dec 1 10:15:54 1995
***************
*** 683,689 ****
single-user state processes are not using the swap partition.
On AmigaDOS, the command:
! xstreamtodev -input=inst-11.fs -rdb-name=<swap partition>
where <swap partition> is the name you gave to the NetBSD
partition to be used for swapping. Use upgr-11.fs if you
are going to do an upgrade of an existing NetBSD system. If
--- 683,689 ----
single-user state processes are not using the swap partition.
On AmigaDOS, the command:
! xstreamtodev --input=inst-11.fs --rdb-name=<swap partition>
where <swap partition> is the name you gave to the NetBSD
partition to be used for swapping. Use upgr-11.fs if you
are going to do an upgrade of an existing NetBSD system. If
***************
*** 748,753 ****
--- 748,760 ----
'sd0*', where '0' is the device which contains the swap
partition you created during the hard disk preparation.
+ If the system should hang after entering the root device, try
+ again with
+
+ loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd
+
+ This disables synchronous transfer on all SCSI devices.
+
The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING:
messages about bad dates in clocks. Eventually you will be
asked to enter the pathname of the shell, just hit return.
***************
*** 812,818 ****
type:
mkdir /mnt/ados
! mount_ados /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados
You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types
of partitions are on the disk `sd0'.
--- 819,825 ----
type:
mkdir /mnt/ados
! mount_ados -o ro /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados
You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types
of partitions are on the disk `sd0'.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: