Olof Rymark wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Got an LCII with 8 MB RAM and 250 MB HD and an ethernetcard. There are
> three netbsd-partitions on the disk, root, usr and swap. First I tried to
> install -current with kernel #84. Tried all different versions generic,
> sbc etc. They all hang after the Soundchip is identified. If i remeber
> it's the videosupport that comes next. OK, so I gave upp current.

actually, i think the problem may in fact be with the sound chip.  there
appears to be an interrupt problem on some machines.
 
> Now I have installed 1.3.2. It boots fine. But when I try to use any
> commands like vi, man and all the rest it coredumps. Arrrgh. There are
> some commands that do work: finger, csh, w, etc. I've tried both the
> generic and sbc kernel but of course nothing helps. I've mounted all
> partitions r/w. 

hmmm....have you run fsck lately?  try running it manually just to make
sure there is no corruption.  i occasionally see something like the above
on my machine that suffers from random disk corruption.

> Any suggestions on how to make this work. Should I go back another version
> to 1.3.1 or 1.3 ? So many questions, so little time.

no, 1.3.2 is the latest and greatest, and it should work better than
earlier versions.

if you don't have filesystem corruption, tho, i'm not too sure what could
be causing the problem...

later.

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