Subject: Re. : NetBSD1.1 Amiga install probs
To: port-amiga , Manfred Matzinger <matzing@ping.at>
From: Laurent Baroukh <Laurent_Baroukh@zd.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 12/30/1996 11:48:19
Manfred Matzinger wrote:

>I like to install NetBSD1.1 from the "Gateway! Vol. 2" CD to my Syquest 270S of
>my A1200 with Blizzard 1230II (68030/50, 68882/50, SCSI-Kit).

>All partitions are set up correctly and I can mount AmigaDOS and my CD-ROM, but
>I'm unable to decrunch the main program sets (e.g. base11.??), which are
>included in form of gzip-tar archives.

>I tried different methods:

>1) Booting from CD: The boot script does not set up my /usr partition and shows
>"can't shift that many. d is not a valid input" after asking for the location
>for the /usr partition.
[...]

I know there is a bug in the SCSI driver for the Blizzard2060 which seem to be 
the same :
In fact, when you try to copy a big file (~more than 300 Ko) from one disk (one 
SCSI id) to an other, the shell is frozen
(but not the system because you can login on an other terminal). The solution 
is to make partitions on one disk 
(all NetBSD partitions + one AmigaDOS), and put the gzip files on the ADOS 
partition.
To test if your problem is the same, just try to make a copy in a shell from 
your cd to your disk (cp /mnt/cd/bigfile /tmp).
If it freez, you have the answer...

Regards,

Laurent Baroukh