Subject: Re: installation problems
To: Paul Lieberman <lieb@sou.edu>
From: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/14/2003 15:24:10
Hi,

I've done all of my recent intstalls by putting the booter and 
netbsd-INSTALLSBC.gz in my mac partition and then booting
netbsd-INSTALLSBC.gz.  You may need to use the netbsd-INSTALL.gz
kernel instead of the SBC one.

From then on I just follow the instructions.

cheers

bruce

Paul Lieberman <lieb@sou.edu> wrote:
> I just got the same SCSI errors trying to install on a Performa 475 
> with the LC040 build that was posted yesterday. I never got as far as 
> the "pos=0 etc." the machine hung with the SCSI errors. I tried 2 
> different disks with the same result.
> Paul
> 
> On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Rob Saecker wrote:
> 
> > I've had a failure trying to install NetBSD on an SE30. It has System 
> > 7.5.5 wtih Mode 32 on and internal drive, NetBSD install aimed at an 
> > external drive. Mkfs reported no errors, but when I choose Build 
> > Devices I get the following:
> >
> > Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> > Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
> > repeat the above lines a couple more times, then
> > pos = 0, i = 15, fs = /
> > alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated
> > -- 
> > Rob Saecker
> > rsaecker@thurston.com