On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:11:14PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:Just to follow up, I got the installation to go by setting up a PXE
> Hi:
>
> I am new to this list but not to NetBSD. I tried NetBSD long ago when
> it was at v. 1.6. I have come back to it in part because I have some
> old hardware and prefer a lighter OS and in part because I do not like
> the recent trend in the Linux world towards replacing the init system
> with something like systemd.
>
> I came back to NetBSD with the 6.x series and my first few
> installations of it went flawlessly. However, I came upon a
> configuration where I could not install it. It is a dated PC with a
> SiS chipset.
boot. The system boots up just fine with NetBSD 6.1.4 afterwards.
I also took a look at the bug tracking system and see that there are
still some old, unresolved bugs regarding DMA timeouts with SiS IDE.
I suppose I could add to one of those tickets when I have some time.
It would still be nice to be able to use the CD-ROM as an installation
media on this system.