Re: Installing NetBSD 8.2 on model 375

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> I've connected to the main ftp server at IP 199.233.217.201 (ftp.netbsd.org)
> anonymous login, password: none
> It connects fine
> I set the directory as /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.2/hp300/binary/sets
> The installer recognizes 7 files as follows:
> games.tgz
> man.tgz
> misc.tgz
> base.tgz
> comp.tgz
> etc.tgz
> text.tgz
>
> However, the following are also in the same directory but are not
> recognised:
> debug.tgz
> kern-GENERIC.tgz
> modules.tgz
> tests.tgz
> six more files x*.tgz

That's really odd.

kern-GENERIC.tgz is a plain file:

morden% ls -l kern-GENERIC.tgz 
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds  1741262 Mar 31  2020 kern-GENERIC.tgz
morden%

> Note that some of the files listed (under both recognised and unrecognised)
> are actually links to the.../shared/mk68/ folder.

Yes, but the targets of those symlinks exist:

morden% pwd
/ftp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.2/hp300/binary/sets
morden% 
morden% ls -lL
total 529560
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds        870 Mar 31  2020 MD5
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds       2553 Mar 31  2020 SHA512
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds   54305330 Mar 31  2020 base.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds  128560363 Mar 31  2020 comp.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds  218487087 Mar 31  2020 debug.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds     629632 Mar 31  2020 etc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    3349723 Mar 31  2020 games.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    1741262 Mar 31  2020 kern-GENERIC.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds   11609978 Mar 31  2020 man.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    5319821 Mar 31  2020 misc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    2133126 Mar 31  2020 modules.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    8061748 Mar 31  2020 tests.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    2988857 Mar 31  2020 text.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    7726515 Mar 31  2020 xbase.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds   31939197 Mar 31  2020 xcomp.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds   25991737 Mar 31  2020 xdebug.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds      25123 Mar 31  2020 xetc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds   32783532 Mar 31  2020 xfont.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 builds  builds    5057893 Mar 31  2020 xserver.tgz
morden% 

Regards,

- Håvard