On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> On the 7500 I was able to boot with the early June floppy image and 
> run through the install using the 1.5a tarballs from the CD.  I 
> couldn't boot from the cd.  After the install I still couldn't boot 
> from the cd or the new disk.  I kept getting "No active package" 
I've not had much luck with my 7500, but mostly due to lack of trying...

> snapshot did compiling ssh.  Still barfs though.  Would pkgsrc solve 
> this problem?  I've never had the hundreds of MB spare needed to 
> unpack the pkgsrc tar file so I've never used it, just binary 
> packages from Bob N's CD's.

I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
extracted pkgsrc tree.  You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
pkgsrc.

-Dan