Subject: Shell What Shell ?
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From: al urbaitis <aurbaiti@servecom.picker.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/13/1995 13:54:57
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>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 22:44:19 -0500
>From: aurbaiti@servecom.picker.com (Al Urbaitis)
>To: amiga@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: Shell What Shell ?
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>Hello All
>I am having abit of trouble with the
>installation of NetBSD1.1
>
>Things seem to go all right installing
>the miniroot.
>But go to xxx soon after.
>
>I used the command
>
>loadbsd -I4 -n2 -p netbsd
>
>to get things started.(Alas the disc I chose
>to install NetBSD doesn't like synchronous
>operation)the -I4 seems to get around
>this problem.
>
>The install program reports my configuration
>and then issues next few lines.
>
>
>panic cannot mount root
>dumping to dev 411 offset 34288
>dumping 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 succeeded
>
>and then my system reboots...
>according to the docs I have I was supposed to
>have been asked for the location of usr and
>all the rest.
>
>
>My system consists of:
>
>A2000
>WorkBench 3.1
>GVP 030 50Mhz with GURU ROM (omniscsi.device)
>8M 32 bit Ram on the GVP card
>8M ram on a DataFlyer board
>Retina Z2 with 4M
>Flicker fixer
>1M agnus
>std Denise
>1G Seagate Drive (for my Amiga stuff)
>
>200M Rodime(intended for NetBSD stuff)
>The 200M drive was prepared via HDtoolbox
>it is organized in 4 partitions.
>They were labeled as follows:
>root   15M
>swap   32M
>usr   100M
>local  51M
>
>Well I am at a loss. The behavior of the
>install program is different enough from
>the docs to have me mighty confused.
>
>Is this reboot a buglike feature?
>If so what do I do now?
>If this is not a feature would a kind
>soul point me in the right direction
>
>FAQS curses bemused smiles all are welcome :)
>
>al
>
>I can be had at any of the following
>locations
>
>aurbaiti@servecom.picker.com
>urbaitis@ct.picker.com
>urbman@mr.picker.com
>
>
>