Subject: Re: Latest softfloat build?
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/25/2004 17:10:53
Hi,

I have no idea.  What system is this on?

Could you try the install kernel from RC4 maybe?

Thanks!

cheers

bruce

Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:44:20 -0600 (CST)
> From: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
> Subject: Re: Latest softfloat build?
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> 
> Sorry to reply to my own messge.
> 
> I have found softflaot here:
> ftp://ftp.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-2.0_RC5-mac-softfloat.
> 
> 
> However, I am having some weird issues when installing. It boots up OK.
> 
> Then some weird issues occur. Whenever it tries to ping, either from the 
> installer testing the network, or from /bin/sh I see no output, and when I 
> control-C I see a message saying zero packet transmitted (or received). 
> That is zero TRANSMITTED. Strange...
> 
> Then I have problems when FTPing. I had trouble even connecting to one of 
> my own LAN machines for some reason (though it worked fine from any other 
> lan machine, and the network setting were correct, including the netmask).
> 
> I was able to connect directly to both ftp.apple.com and to the ftp server 
> above. I started to try to manually download the sets from that server. 
> But every just locked up. I could not control C out of the ftp transfer 
> (it got maybe 20% through).
> 
> Any clues? I see these weird lockups seemingly related to networking.
> 
> I am botting with the 2.0 booter from a small macos partition on the 
> insternal drive. I also booted from a network drive to no avail.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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