Subject: Re: New user, new install
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/09/1996 09:46:53
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Michael Rousseau wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed NetBSD/mac v1.1 on my IIci (32/580) with standard
> > internal Mac video and  RGB 13" monitor.
> > 
> > During installation, I got unexpected EOF errors installing base11,
> > netbsd11, and etc11.  I escaped from these and tried it with several
> > distributions from several sources.  Adam Delu recommended untarring the
> > gzipped files first and doing a "zinstall" from the Mini-Root shell.  I
> > haven't done this yet.
> 
> Try gunzipping them, untarring them, retarring them, and giving it 
> another round.  That shouldn't happen, though.  When you downloaded them, 
> you did set your ftp software to binary mode, right?

If you did a binary ftp & everything else is ok, you might try giving the
installer more memory (in the Get Info window). I seem to remember that I
had to up its memory size to 1000K when installing 1.1. Other people have
needed more memory than that.

Good luck!

Bill