Re: Near successful iMac G3 Install

[Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jun 17, 2008, at 20:09, Bryan Pierce wrote:
> Hello everyone!!
>
> Woohoo!!!     It's been a bit of a challenge getting BSD installed.  
> So it feels
> good to especially good to be here!  I'm trying to learn Unix/Linux  
> because
> I believe it will be a great way to learn structured programming.
>
> It seems like NetBSD should be an excellent choice. The documentation
> on the NetBSD is incredible. So I am very happy to be here and look
> forward to hopefully getting to know everyone here a little bit  
> over time.
>
> At first, I thought my questions would be pretty simple and basic,  
> but it now
> seems that I've got quite a few smaller questions, and I'll  
> probably have
> a few more by the time I'm done.
>
> My biggest questions are
>        (1) what tools or editors do I use to edit the
> /etc/rc file (perhaps if I can get into multi-user mode some  
> familiar text
> editors will appear

/etc/rc.conf is what you probably want to change and the base install  
comes with vi.

>         (2) is there a way easy or better way to install the
> ofwboot.xcf bootloader files onto (they either were not installed -  
> or if it did
> the name got garbled)

I can't parse this - uh - sentence. What exactly is the problem?

> ### I've made it at least 98% of the install process, but the  
> system would
> failed to reboot without a bit of nudge
>        - there seems to be NO ofwboot.xcf file on the HFS+  
> partition that was created for it

Well, if you didn't put it there it won't be there.

>        - Able to boot using the bootloader  on the install CD
>        > boot    cd:,\ofwboot.xcf    hd:,7/netbsd
>
> ### The system boots into single-user mode with a "dumb" terminal,  
> so I'm
> having a hard time doing anything
>        -The system boots and gives the following messages
>                /etc/rc is not configured.  Multi-user aborted
>                Warning about setting an account and using su  
> instead of working in root
>                No entry for terminal type "dumb";
>                Using dumb terminal settings

TERM=xterm
export TERM
vi /etc/rc.conf

>        - The system mounts as read-only.
>                -  Tried this command but it didn't work
>                        # mount -u /                          
> mount_ffs : /dev/md0a on / type ffs readonly, local

mount -rw /

>                - So I tried this - and it did seem to work
>                        # umount    /dev/md0a
>                        # mount    /dev/wd0a   /
>                - (btw, I have no idea what "md0" is so I don't know  
> what I unmonted :P )

Looks like you booted the install kernel which comes with a ramdisk.

> ### My ultimate goal is to try to "install" ofwboot and ofwboot.xcf  
> by copying them
> to an HFS partition (then I can boot into Mac OS 9 via CD and copy  
> them from there
> to the HFS+ boot partition ( but I don't know if there is a better,  
> easier, way)

You can use a DOS partition instead, NetBSD can read and write those,  
unlike HFS+.
As far as I know all versions of OpenFirmware Apple ever came up with  
can read DOS partitions.

>        - I believe that I read that HFS+ is not recognizable by  
> BSD, but that HFS
>                 can be used to transfer files

We have read-only support for HFS+, there are userland tools to deal  
with HFS.

have fun
Michael

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