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Hi, all!

After a day's work, a bunch of binaries from gregorio and ftp.unit.no,
and Jonathan Stone's installation instructions, I managed to bootstrap
NetBSD and partition my disk to my liking.

I have two diskless DECstation 5000/200's, and two storage expansion
units (each with a SCSI disk).  So, my bootstrap strategy has been to
get a working system on one disk, then hack a newer version on the
second disk.  This is easy, because I just connect both units to one
3MAX.

So far, it's been this:

1) Install Ultrix on one disk, boot with Ultrix.

2) Use Ultrix to disklabel and dump the miniroot on the second disk.

3) Boot NetBSD from the second disk, get the machine networked, and
relabel, newfs, and install NetBSD on the first disk.

4) Boot NetBSD from the first disk, relabel, newfs, and install NetBSD
+ compilation tools on the second disk.

5) Recompile the latest kernel, and install on the first disk.

Here are my problems:

I had to do a lot of hacking to merge the latest binutils+gcc snapshot
from ftp.unit.no and the ones from comp.tar.gz on ftp.unit.no.
I think I have a working ELF compiler suite now, but it took work.

/bin/ps doesn't work under any circumstances:

b04$ ps
ps: proc size mismatch (4648 total, 656 chunks)
b04$

In a flash of inspiration, I tried mounting /proc with the following
line in /etc/fstab:

none		/proc	procfs	rw	0 0

but, all I get is "operation not supported by device".

Thinking that my kernel (the one from gregorio's miniroot) was out of
date, I tried recompiling the latest one (from sup to sup.netbsd.org).

When I booted the latest kernel (took a little hacking, because
comp.tar.gz contained a broken /usr/bin/lorder), it won't mount
/dev/rz0d as my /usr partition.... says something about "/dev/rz0d:
operation not supported by device".

What should I do at this point?  Are the .tar.gz packages on
ftp.unit.no the most recent binary snapshots?  If not, where can I get
new ones to install?

(Also, will 1.1 be the first official release of NetBSD/pmax?)

FYI, I have been hired to install NetBSD on 50 3MINs, so getting a
full system on an external SCSI disk is my first step.  Then, I'll
just hook up the disk to each machine at a time, boot NetBSD from that
disk, and use it to copy and install NetBSD on the internal hard
drives.

I hope that in the process I'll be able to contribute to the
NetBSD/pmax project.

Thanks a lot,

- --Gord

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