Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD1.32 without install script
To: Allen Wittenauer <allenw@iobm.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/13/1998 20:42:24
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:15:45PM -0700, Allen Wittenauer wrote:
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> > >  I only can guess from your description that you might have
> > > no FPU at all, which makes the very first programm accessing the FPU
> > > to crash. Normally this would be "fsck", in your case it is possibly
> > > "zcat". NetBSD/Amiga does support Non-FPU environments, but I am not
> > > sure about the supplied GENERIC kernel.
> > 
> > some of them. To be precise: 68020 and 68030 ones. _NOT_ 68LC040
> > or 68LC060, currently. This is clearly stated in the INSTALL document
> > near the top, so you can't sue me :-).
> 
> I have the same problems, but with an A4060T.  I didn't think the QuickPak
> card used a 68LC060... but, then again, my SCSI bus appears to hang on me.
> 
> I've noticed that if I do a manual install (ie, booting to single user mode,
> and doing the mounts, ifconfigs, etc) that I can get a LOT farther...
> 
No comment, unless you give full information.

E.g., as you make it that far, the kernel itself should tell you what kind
of CPU you have.

	-is