On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:05:51PM -0800, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 11:32 PM -0500 2/1/01, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> >On following up. After the install completed this time, I just went
> >into the booter and it started up with various message, but blew up on
> >an illegal instruction trap.
> >
> >Should I be using a different kernel?
> 
> Well in general you should try the sbc kernel if the normal generic 
> one has disk or scsi problems of any kind.


This is good advice. I did try the sbc kernel. I did it by simply
running the installer as before, mounting the four partitions and
installing the kernel. I did not redo anything else.

I made it into a single-user shell. I tried to configure what I needed
to in /etc/rc.conf. I added 'ifconfig_de0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask
255.255.255.0" though I suspect that is all wrong for my 660av; I just
copied it from some install instruction and change the mask and ip.  I
changed the NO to YES. I took a guess about what should be in
/etc/hosts. Then I rebooted. I haven't got down to your other
suggestions because this was enough to point out two errors that seem
to account for most of my troubles.

With a separate /var partition, the /var partition needs to be
relatively large and the /root partition can be much smaller. Almost
all of the space taken up in a root partition is really in /var. I'd
guess I could get by with something between 50M and 30M for root, but
I need at least 100M for /var. I'd love to get an idea from somebody
who has them separated.

Anyhow, after I tried to reboot, I kept getting the following
oddities. from /dev/ttyE0. After the file system checks. I got

Setting tty flags.
ttyflags: open /dev/ttyE0: No such file or directory
setting sysctl variables:
starting network.
logger: not found
/etc/rc: WARNING $hostname not set.

a whole lot fo net stuff I don't thing did me any good because it is not configured. And then after a while - the time is wrong on the machine - I get a message about being unable to open a terminal.

Feb 3 01:12:17 getty[169] /dev/ttyE0: No such file or directory


I have three questions:

1. Is there a way to break into the boot process and get any kind of
shell. I tried to hit control-C a few times and someother characters
but it just displays on the screen.

2. What do I need to do to configure networking? The machines IP is
(or should be) 192.168.1.3. And the machines name is Roberta. I'm
using a LinkSys Cable DSL ('cos I have dsl) router at the moment for
NAT to get out, but I have other machines her working on my lan.
Frankly if I can configure networking well enough from the single user
shell so I can telnet in, I won't care about getting the local device
for a monitor working.

3. How can I get a working terminal? What is /dev/ttyE0? Should I
download something I'm missing or do I have to build a specific device
myself. Should I even be using this device?

-- 
Josh Kuperman                       
josh@saratoga.lib.ny.us