Date: 07/09/2004 18:30:36

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 18:30:36, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
|On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:02:22PM -0400, Steve Rumble wrote:
|> It looks like Chris will have a snapshot up soon. Moving to an iso
|> from there or netbooting an install shouldn't be difficult.
|
|I've placed a snapshot at http://www.rezrov.net/netbsd/sgimips-2.0
|
|It includes a bootable CDROM image. X sets are included, but the server
|probably doesn't work (sgimips didn't support the XFree86 loadable
|driver scheme the last time I checked).

I'm sorry guys, but I'm still having problems with this. I can now boot,
thanks to some hints I was shown off-list. sysinst starts and I can
disklabel and newfs, however I don't seem to be able to reliably open
the tar files due to problems with the on-board Adaptec SCSI controller
(if I'm reading these messages correctly) ...

after mounting the CD at /mnt, I tried to unpack the tar files to disk
manually, however this is the sort of thing that happens:

|# pwd
|/mnt/sgimips/binary/sets
|# ls -al base.tgz
|-r--r--r--  1 0  wheel  21394672 Jul  9 04:12 base.tgz
|# tar -ztvf base.tgz
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|^C                                        
|tar: Signal caught, cleaning up.
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|cd0(ahc0:0:4:0): adapter resource shortage
|#                                         

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Malcolm Herbert                                    System Administrator
ph [990] 54881 rm 28-241                          School of GeoSciences