Christopher R. Bowman wrote:

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> 1. where as I used to be able to reliably build the entire current
>    source tree, my make continues to fall over in many places. I
>    am well aware of what -current is, however I have a hard time
>    believing that current has been this broken for several weeks,
>    rather I believe that I am doing something wrong. (please don't
>    refer me to the current users mailing list I am already on it)

Have you reinstalled make and /usr/share/mk?  How about config?  How are
you getting your source?  Is it possible that you have files sitting
around in your source tree which need to be deleteed?

> 2. Dave Huang was nice enough to put up his 660av kernel but it
>    randomly hangs at some of the single user prompts.

Don't know anything about this....

> 3. I am trying to install netbsd on a spare seagate I happen to have
>    lying around here for my 660.  I have been able to install onto a
>    100 meg quantum butmkfs will unexpectidly exits when trying to install
>    onto the 248 meg seagate, I can even use it for swap, netbsd wont
>    recognize it.  It works fine under macos.  Will mkfs and netbsd
>    work with a 1024 byte block disk drive?  The drive can only be
>    set to 1k block sizes not 512 (La Cie utilities freaks on this drive,
>    I had to use another formatter.)

I've heard of a number of problems with this.  I believe that several
parts of the kernel assume a 512-byte blocksize, although some work was
being done to eliminate this dependency.  As for possible work arounds,
have you tried using newfs to make a filesystem on the drive (i.e. ignore
mkfs)?

I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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