Subject: Solved -> Re: Trouble installing 2.0.2 on Performa 450
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:09:27 +0200
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Bjarne =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4ckstr=F6m?=  <bjarne.backstrom@abc.se>
Subject: Solved -> Re: Trouble installing 2.0.2 on Performa 450
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:30:24 +0200, Hauke Fath
<hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:

>At 18:08 Uhr +0200 7.9.2005, Bjarne B=E4ckstr=F6m wrote:
>>   I've been trying to install NetBSD 2.0.2 on a Performa 450 (LC III) wit=
h
>>36 MB of RAM, without FPU, using the Mac68k Installer 1.1h. The installer
>>reports on every .tgz file I try to install: "Invalid compressed
>>data--format violated 1". Some files makes the installer hang.
>
>FWIW, the MacOS-side installer is obsolete. The install kernel is the way
>to go, although there is considerable brokenness in the netbsd-2-0 sysinst
>- see the port-mac68k list archive and PR 29049.
>
   It turned out that the network card (unknown manufacturer) for some
reason didn't get along well with the installer. A bit spooky, because it
seems to work fine otherwise. Anyhow, changing the network card solved the
problem.

   The computer boots fine, but I get two error messages right after
"Updating motd." (So far, the only configuration I've done is changing
"rc_configured=3DNO" to "rc_configured=3DYES", using cpout, cpin) :
---
awk: out of space in tostring on 1028
 input record number 10, file /etc/mailer.conf
 source line number 1

[1]    Illegal instruction (core dumped) awk "/^sendmail[...
---

>--
>"The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire=
 a
>hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash hi=
s
>computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism."  (Paul Tomblin=
)

   Seems a bit forgiving if you ask me... ;-)
--
/Bjarne.