Subject: Installer/Disk Problem
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Alan C. Bindemann <bindeman@tsun.eglin.af.mil>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/02/1997 10:55:07
I'm having a problem with the installation process for NetBSD.
Halfway through installing BASE12 I start getting the following errors:
Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
The errors start just as the installer starts placing files in the
/usr/sbin directory.
After getting a couple of dozen of these error messages the installer
dies. I tried increasing the memory size of the installer and got the
same results.
Here are some specifics:
Mac IIcx
20Mb Ram
Quantum 730S Lightning Drive
Drive was recently formatted, initialized, partitioned and tested with
the modified version of Apple HD SC (A/UX) 3.0.1.
The partitions are (approx);
350Mb MacOS
55Mb Root
40Mb Swap
250Mb Usr
I started the installer, chose Make Devices, entered a mini-shell and
typed:
>mkdir /usr
>mount /dev/sd0g /usr
>quit
I then started installing the BASE12 package (obtained from the BSDisc
CD-ROM distribution from Info-Magic). At this point I get the error.
I did a sucessful install once before (same Drive, Same CD-ROM) and
got NetBSD to boot, and even got X-Windows running.
Unfortuately, my the Drive started complaining about bad blocks and I
had to reformat the drive and start over :< Now that I have a
reformatted drive I can't get NetBSD back on the system (sigh...)
Any help would be appreciated. While I had NetBSD running I was
really impressed and am eager to get it working again.
Thanks,
Alan Bindemann