Subject: port-amiga/1802: Amiga installation document errors
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/01/1995 12:53:16
>Number:         1802
>Category:       port-amiga
>Synopsis:       There are a few errors and omissions in the Amiga INSTALL document
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec  1 08:05:00 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ignatios Souvatzis & Christian Baurnfeind
>Organization:
	
>Release:        1.1
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD beverly.rhein.de 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (INSTALL) #0: Fri Nov 24 13:47:14 EST 1995 chopps@coffee.emich.edu:/exp/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/INSTALL amiga


>Description:
	- xstreamtodev takes double -- for the long form of options, 
	- switching the scsi bus to "never ask for sync transfers" should 
	  be documented
	- INSTALL should tell the user to mount adosfs readonly
>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to install following the instructions
>Fix:

Diff is by Christian Bauernfeind.

*** INSTALL	Fri Dec  1 10:15:16 1995
--- new/INSTALL	Fri Dec  1 10:15:54 1995
***************
*** 683,689 ****
  	single-user state processes are not using the swap partition.
  
  	On AmigaDOS, the command:
! 		xstreamtodev -input=inst-11.fs -rdb-name=<swap partition>
  	where <swap partition> is the name you gave to the NetBSD
  	partition to be used for swapping.  Use upgr-11.fs if you
  	are going to do an upgrade of an existing NetBSD system.  If
--- 683,689 ----
  	single-user state processes are not using the swap partition.
  
  	On AmigaDOS, the command:
! 		xstreamtodev --input=inst-11.fs --rdb-name=<swap partition>
  	where <swap partition> is the name you gave to the NetBSD
  	partition to be used for swapping.  Use upgr-11.fs if you
  	are going to do an upgrade of an existing NetBSD system.  If
***************
*** 748,753 ****
--- 748,760 ----
  	'sd0*', where '0' is the device which contains the swap
  	partition you created during the hard disk preparation.
  
+  	If the system should hang after entering the root device, try
+  	again with
+  
+  		loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd
+  
+  	This disables synchronous transfer on all SCSI devices.
+   
  	The system should continue to boot.  For now ignore WARNING:
  	messages about bad dates in clocks.  Eventually you will be
  	asked to enter the pathname of the shell, just hit return.
***************
*** 812,818 ****
  		type:
  			
  			mkdir /mnt/ados
! 			mount_ados /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados
  
  		You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types
  		of partitions are on the disk `sd0'.
--- 819,825 ----
  		type:
  			
  			mkdir /mnt/ados
! 			mount_ados -o ro /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados
  
  		You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types
  		of partitions are on the disk `sd0'.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: