Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:51:29 -0600
> From: Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
> Subject: New 1.6.1 install notes; also pkg_add problem with 1.6.1
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> 
> I installed 1.6.1 on a Quadra 700 yesterday- quite an ordeal due to the 
> Installer bug (1.1h) with what are now "small" hard drives larger than 
> 1 GB but smaller than 10GB.  This is the "Error on SCSIRead(), #5" 
> problem, occurring in this case on a 4.3GB IBM drive.  Maximizing the 
> memory to the Installer made no difference.  Fortunately the Installer 
> would write the kernel into the root partition and enough of the 
> base.tgz and etc.tgz files to boot into single user mode and finish if 
> from there.
> 
> On boot I get "warning: no /dev/console" and then "mfs /dev" or 
> something like that; boot seems to hang for about 2 or 3 minutes at 
> this point and then proceeds.  Building devices with the Installer or 
> from within /dev doesn't fix this.  It also hung once on boot at "adb0" 
> but that hasn't been repeated.

Hi,

I think what you can do is the following.

Boot into the installer.

get a shell
mount the hard disk 
mv /dev /dev.old

reboot and let the hang happen while it builds a memory file
system with /dev on it.

cd into /dev.old
./MAKEDEV all

reboot back into the installer
remount the hard disk
mv /dev.old /dev

and then when you reboot it should not make the memory file
system with dev on it again.

cheers

bruce

> 
> But it works and that's the main thing!  I used 1.4.2 on a IIci, 145B 
> and this Quadra several years ago; from what I've seen so far, 1.6.1 
> seems to be improved.  Seems faster, seems to handle DSL traffic over 
> the sn0 better.  Very nice work and renders an obsolete machine useful 
> again!
> 
> I am having a problem installing software to make it actually useful, 
> though.  I want to install apache, Emacs, a browser and a few other 
> applications.  Some of that might reasonably be a part of the standard 
> distribution someday.  pkg_add fails as documented below; there was 
> also a problem I was able to solve; the documentation says to do:
> 
> "% PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/Packages/1.6.1/mack68k/All
> % export PKG_PATH"
> 
> with the results that there is "no such command."
> 
> "setenv 
> PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6.1/mac68k/All" 
> worked temporarily.
> 
> Also, I found that the URL in the documentation is not quite correct in 
> that ".../Packages/..." should be ".../packages...".
> 
> Now, I can ftp to the directory and download packages manually, but I 
> cannot do so with pkg_add.  For example:
> 
> # pkg_add -v emacs
> 
> parsing ftp://(correct URL with "=" appended)
> path: (correct URL, with "=" appended)
> increasing RLIMIT_NOFILE to max 956 open files
> trying PKG_PATH (correct URL with "=" appended)
> spawning FTP coprocess
> ftp -detv (correct URL with "=/" appended)
> ftp: connect to address 2001:4f8:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe21:6563: No route to 
> host
> pkg_add: expect1 failed, rc=0
> pkg_add: ftp-start failed
> Reusing FDs 4/5 for communication with FTP coprocess
> 
> ftp> nlist emacs.tbz /var/tmp/pkg.02731a
> SIGPIPE!
> pkg_add: short write: Broken pipe
> pkg_add: nlist failed!
> Reusing FDs 4/5 for communication with FTP coprocess
> 
> ftp> nlist emacs.tbz /var/tmp/pkg.02731b
> SIGPIPE!
> pkg_add: short write: Broken pipe
> pkg_add: nlist failed!
> Reusing FDs 4/5 for communication with FTP coprocess
> 
> ftp> nlist emacs.tbz /var/tmp/pkg.02731c
> SIGPIPE!
> pkg_add: short write: Broken pipe
> pkg_add: nlist failed!
> pkg_add: no pkg found for `emacs`, sorry
> pkg_add: i package(s) failed
> 
> Any advice on what I have got miscued in my setup would be appreciated. 
>   I don't know what address 2001:4f8:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe21:6563 is, it has 
> nothing to do with any of my machines as far as I can tell.  Is the 
> broken pipe an internal problem on my box?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers!