Re: NetBSD1.1 Amiga install probs

[Jeffrey W Grzanich <grzanich%sover.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Zoltan Kocsi wrote:

> 
> 
> On 29 Dec 1996, 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 had the same problem, as far as I remember the install script on the CD 
> is broken. I read the script, figured what it did (or what was it supposed 
> to do) and after booting from the CD I did it manually (killed the script 
> after creating the root partition). I had to read a few man pages but at the 
> end it worked out quite easy.
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> 

  Yes, this too is what I had to do.  I did however copy all the file 
sets to the last partition on the drive and did not have anymore problems.
  One other note, I found the INST-11.fs to be broken on my copy of the 
Gateway 2 CD :-(   This cause a little frustation to say the least.
  
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