> I'm novice for netbsd (and in english, excuse me).
> 
> My system is an LC II 8/80 plus 1 HD 52 mb plus 1 HD 40 mb.
> 
> 
> First question.
> 
> I've observed a strange transformation in same files.
> 
> The first time I've notated as some files in /usr/share/man/cat1 (text
> files) to change in special device files, so I've reinstalled them.
> This time some files in /bin also changes same.
> This is the list from ls -l /bin:
> 
> This is occur (I think) after I have untarred, imprudently, some
> precompiled files downloaded from an site of freebsd.  Why occour this?

I don't think the untarring was directly the problem. One thing you can
do next time is do a "tar t..." instead of "tar x..." to see what is
in the tar file.

What kind of hard disk do you have? You said it's an 80 MB, but what
brand? There are two different SCSI drivers at the moment, and each
one has certain drives with which it doesn't work very well. You
might need the other driver.

> The second question.
> 
> I have downloaded and installed netBSD current some days ago.
> It work fine (ps also, thanks to Bill Studenmund) but at boot time the
> kernel (generic#30 - 31 and finally madhatter#39 -40) give the message:
> 
> ae0 at nubus0: failed to determine size of RAM.
> ae1 at nubus0: failed to determine size of RAM.
> ae2 at nubus0: failed to determine size of RAM.
> 
> Technical specifications tell me that  the ethernet controller of my card is
> National Semiconductor DP83932 (SONIC).

Weird. If your card has a SONIC chip on it (not to be confused with SONIC
ethernet cards, a card manufacturer), then it should NOT be using the
ae driver. It should be using the sn driver (sn0). Probably the kernel
needs to be taught how to tell your card from the other ones..

What version of NetBSD did you download? The latest snapshot?

Take care,

Bill