Subject: Re: netbsd2-netbsd3 problems on IIci
To: Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it>
From: None <setient@terra.powix.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/21/2005 14:31:32
does your 68k have a fpu?? i had alot of issues on a lc III with things 
like that until i tried the softfloat binaries!.  you should try them. 
ftp://ftp.sixgirls.org/.  they are in there somewhere
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, 
Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:13:28 +0200
> From: Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it>
> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: netbsd2-netbsd3 problems on IIci
> 
> Hey,
>
> I decided not to give up... on my IIci. I already told the story of 
> installing netbsd-3-0 snapshot and how unreliable just the untarring was. The 
> resulting OS was unusable with about everything segfaulting, including fsck!
>
> I thus decided to grab the netbsd-2-0 snaphsot, latest one 15 June, IIRC and 
> just untar the .tgz on my broken installation. I kept the 3-series kernel 
> though. The computer works much, much better! the tarballs untarred! I can 
> now launch X! login with telnet and overall I didn't get many problems. CVS 
> doesn't work reliably though. I can't checkout a CVS repository using ssh 
> from savannah.org.
>
> I untarred pkgsrc.tar.gz (from current). I noticed something went wrong. I 
> tried updating from CVS  but it aborts... by untarring the package again I am 
> notified of checksum problems...
>
> Somehow netbsd is having serious problem in the 68k platform! I don't know if 
> there will be a 2.0.3 or a 2.1 release, but action is needed and the upcoming 
> 3 is even worse.
>
> -R
>
>