Subject: Re: help
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/04/1999 01:42:20
>Hello,
>
>    I have come to the point with NetBSD that I need outside help.
>Hardware; Mac IIcx, 17MB RAM, 1.2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive, partitioned
>as; MacOS partition 360MB, root 360MB, user 490MB, swap 40MB Mac OS 7.5.3.
> First what I have done so far. I have installed Version 1.4
>netbsd-genericsbc kernal.gz, base.tgz, etc.tgz, games/tgz, man.tgz, text.tgz
>using installer version 1.1g, booter is version1.11.3,
>    I have succeeded in getting the IIcx to boot in multi-user mode (Yea!!
>only took two days to figure that out. Yes is not the same as YES
>apparently)
>Now the problem. In single user mode when the IIcx asks for terminal type it
>will accept vt220. Everything works fine. But in multi-user mode when I log
>in as root to set up my user account no matter what I enter at the terminal
>type prompt is returned as type unknown. As I watch the boot messages I see
>that the root and user partitions are checked and declared clean. I have
>searched the mailing lists archives to no avail and none of the FAQ's seems
>to have an answer. Anyone know what I have done wrong or what I am missing?
>I can't even access the man pages from the multi-user mode, nothing seems to
>work. Thanks in advance.

Easy answer :).

Reason:
When you double-click the installer, it ONLY asks you where the root
filesystem is. That's all it mounts. You installed the sets into JUST the
root partition. The stuff you thought were going into your usr partition,
actually were going into a directory called usr (or whatever you called
your user partition in your fstab). Your actual usr partition remains
empty. You can test this by typing "df". When you boot single-user, again,
it only mounts the root partition. Since it does that, you can see
everything that was installed. Once you go multi-user, it mounts the usr
partition, & "covers up" everything that's in the same spot it wants to be.

Solution:
Go into the installer. Then hit mini shell. Then delete the stuff that's
being hidden (whatever is where your user mount point it). Then mount your
user partition. THEN you can exit the mini shell & use the installer, since
all partitions are mounted.


Colin...any plans to make BIG BOLD PRINT for this in the README.install?


Mike
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