Shunsuke Masuda wrote:
> 
> In Mkfs,I met an "unallocated" warning only when formatting "/home"
> partiton which is at the bottom of the HDD. 

That's a fairly harmless error, I got it on all of my partitions...it just
means that you could've sized your partitions a little better.
 
> Because "SCSIRead()" error occurred when I used installer,
> I planned to install from an internal HDD on which 
> NetBSD-1.3BETA is already installed.

Well, if you up the memory for the Installer, it might go away, but
installing from within NetBSD works a _lot_ faster, so that's the way I'd
recommend going, anyway.

> Mounting external HDD(sd0),"df -k" shows strange values:
>   # df -k
>   Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>   /dev/sd2a     1074436   846725   120267    88%    /
>   kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
>   procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
>   mfs:125         31631       21    30028     0%    /tmp
>   /dev/sd0a      193246   154533    19388    89%    /mnt
>   /dev/sd0g      338189   193426   110944    64%    /mnt/var
>   /dev/sd0d      628092   338198   227084    60%    /mnt/var/spool/news
>   /dev/sd0e     1304553   668780   505317    57%    /mnt/usr
>   /dev/sd0f     2041830  1304562   533085    71%    /mnt/home

Yeah, I think that we have some problems with our partition size
calculations.  I get weird ones myself....btw, how do you get an mfs that
size?  Anyway, I've looked at the code in df and in the kernel and got
rather bogged down.  I keep meaning to file a PR on this one...

>   # ls -lAR /mnt/home
>   total 8
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  8192 Dec  4  1931 lost+found
> 
>   /mnt/home/lost+found:
>   # 

Ok, that's definitely a little weird.  Have you run fsck?

> Anyway, I installed files like this:
>   # cd /mnt
>   # tar -zxvpf $(dir)/base.tgz
>   ...

That's fine.

> After booting from the external HDD in "single user mode",
> I wanted to vi /etc/rc.conf:
>   # mount /
>   # mount /var
>   # mount /usr
>   # vi /etc/rc.conf
>   ex/vi Error: unknown : No such file or directory

Have you read the INSTALL doc?  You need to do:

export TERM=vt100

first.  The error message you're seeing is vi's rather cryptic way of
telling you that it can't figure out the terminal type.

> Would you please tell me what I should do?

Please let us know if the above doesn't work for you.

Later.

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