Subject: Re: problems installing netbsd 1.5.1 on a raq
To: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
From: None <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 08/23/2001 03:16:50
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:52:06PM -0700, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> marius@alchemy.franken.de wrote:
> 
> > i recently ran into several problems installing netbsd 1.5.1 on a raq(1),
> 
> Heh.  Welcome to my world.  NetBSD is actually pretty stable even on raq1
> hardware once you get it on there.  Just don't run fdisk on any cobalt that
> has its DMA disabled, and when you need to fsck your ext2fs partitions
> don't expect the fsck_ext2fs program in the base dist to work particularly
> well.  I'm really currious to know if you're clock on that raq runs fast
> like all mine do.  It only happens on the raq1 cobalt hardware, but its a
> very noticable and constant drift.
> 
> -- 
> Jamie Heilman                   http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/
> "It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things."
> 							-John Logue