Re: install/52845: no console device on 486 DX4-S 100 Mhz

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost>]

On 2017/12/22 2:47, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
> Thank you very much. Both of these image groups appear to work.

My pleasure. I'm happy to hear that there is still user of i486,
to which I installed NetBSD for the first time :-).

> The do complain about /dev/console but I can access the installation afterwards.

You may probably mean "warning: no /dev/console". This is harmless.
We generate device files in /dev automatically.

> The difference I spotted is that the floppy-INSTALL_FLOPPY print white console text, whereas the floppy-INSTALL print green text until shortly before the installer is launched.

Yes, the difference comes from kernel configuration files.

> I am now installing using the images from https://www.netbsd.org/~rin/netbsd-7-i386-20171221/floppy-INSTALL/ . Process is slowed down IPv6 - ftp tries to connect to IPv6 address  and has to timeout before proceeding with IPv4. Is there any way to disable IPv6?

Sorry, IIRC, you cannot disable IPv6 by sysinst(8).

Please do not forget to install netbsd-LEGACY kernel instead of
netbsd-GENERIC. Otherwise, the installed system will not boot.

rin