Subject: Installing NetBSD on my system
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ken Snider <cdvideo@io.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/27/1995 17:54:57
Greetings!

I am having numerous difficulties installing NetBSD on my 486 system. The
system is extremely generic, containing 1 IDE Drive (512MB) which is
entirely devoted to NetBSD (This system is meant to be an HTTP Server soon).

The system specs, as listed by NetBSD, are as follows:

NetBSD 1.0 (GENERICAHA) #3: Sun Oct 23 20:58:04 PDT 1994
    cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkely.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERICAHA
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real mem  = 8257536
avail mem = 6778880
using 126 buffers containing 516096 bytes of memory
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns82450 or ns16450, no fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x3ff irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 520MB 1057 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec <ST3660A>
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
ed2 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 10: address 00:00:1b:03:37:f2, type NE2000
(16-bit)
ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using emulator
biomask 4040 netmask 412 ttymask 12

While installing, I get numerous errors of the system being unable to set
the drive's 'label'. also, after creating the root partition, I get the
error 'newfs: ioctl (WDINFO) - no such process'.

Help!!!

Regards,

Ken Snider
CDVideo Services