Subject: YAHM (Yet Another Help Message)
To: RiscBSD Mailing List <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Malcolm Speed <R.M.Speed-iq2j9367@lmu.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/14/1996 13:33:00
Err..... I think 'Help' is the watchword for today !

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong.
I am trying to install BSD 1.2 Release (Beta-Release ?)
My setup is RPC600 (33Mhz 610), 850 IDE Conner (~350 for BSD), 8+8+1MB, 
6x Mitsumi (so called ATAPI) CD-ROM.

Here's what happens;
I boot from the floppy (Gunzipped image!), it goes through all the various
blurb on startup, gets past the point where it asks you the dimensions of
your HD - mine is;-
1656 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors, 512 Bytes/Sector
BSD is starting at Cylinder 1001
I specify 55 Cyl for the Root, 50 for the swap and the rest (500) for
/usr
I set the mount point to be /usr, It then says something about there being
some trouble ("you're in do-do") if it doesn't work, then launches into
transferring stuff and trys to create files on the HD, but instead I get
screenfulls of something to the ilk of;-

/:create /symlink failed, no inodes free
tar: could not create file .profile : no space left on device
UID 0 on /:file system full

I could imagine something like this happening if there was no actual space
left but this happens when using the boot floppy (1.44M !!!!)

I've followed the instructions which are clear and concise, time and time
again, it's getting beyond a joke, I shall not give up on it as I wish to
have a machine capable of running a varient of Unix, DOGS, Windoze and a
fairly decent OS (ROS) running on the same machine.

I must say I didn't get this trouble when installing Linux on my P60,
which incidently is slower than my RPC in native mode, but faster than
some DEC P75's I use at work....... the joys of motherboard chipsets, eh!

Rob