Subject: Re: sysinst on mac68k is really bad!
To: None <fredb@immanent.net, paul@wakawaka.com>
From: Paul Sander <paul@wakawaka.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/21/2004 14:19:16
>--- Forwarded mail from fredb@immanent.net

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Paul Sander wrote:

>> I've just spent the bulk of my afternoon fighting with the new installation
>> kernel for NetBSD 1.6.2 on a Centris 650.  I've come across three show-
>> stoppers:

>Sorry to hear that.

>> - When installing from an ISO-9660 CD image, neither of the kernel
>>   install sets can be found because their names exceed the 8.3 limitation.
>>   In my case, the CD is produced using a version of Toast that does not
>>   support the Unix-style long names that the installer seems to expect.

>That sounds really bad. Is it this image,

>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.6.2/mac68kcd.iso

>or one from another source?

I FTP'ed the mac68k hierarchy from the netbsd.org master site, and mastered
my own CD that also includes a MacOS 7.6 installer and other tools that are
needed to install on a clean machine from scratch.

>> So, back to the old tools I go.  How can I file bug reports for these
>> problems?

>  http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/send-pr.html

Thanks.

>The NetBSD 2.0 (Beta) installer is somewhat improved over 1.6.2, by
>the way. This seems to be the latest snapshot:

>  ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200406120000/mac68k/

That's good to hear.  I'll give it a shot.

>--- End of forwarded message from fredb@immanent.net

Thanks again,

Paul