On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, SamMaEl wrote:

>  <tail of woe snipped>
> 
> 	Anyways, this brings a few questions to mind. 1. What is up with
> the Installer?!? I've gotten nothing but grief from every Installer I have
> used since I first attempted installation back in January. It does NOT
> like my drive I guess... I can give some specs for it if someone wants
> them, and might know what is wrong. 2. Do I need to download the 1.3_ALPHA
> X distribution, or will the 1.2G that I already have work alright? I'd
> like to save a couple hours of downloading if possible... not to mention
> the bandwidth ;-) 

1. I don't know why the installer doesn;t like your drive.  But I might
suggest that, once you get NetBSD up again, you dispense with the Mac-side
installer completely and install newer updates from within NetBSD.

2. I haven't seen a 1.3_ALPHA X distribution.  Regardless, the 1.2G code
works just fine (I'm using it right now).

> 	Luckily, from all of the troubles I have had with the Installer, I
> have a dedicated MacOS partition to hold tarballs and various things I
> download to install into NetBSD... like pine, X, the kernel sources, etc.
> I suggest it to anyone with similar problems ;-)

As I mentioned above, once you get NetBSD up and stable, turn that MacOS
partition into a NetBSD partition and do your upgrades etc. from NetBSD.
Even easier...


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