Subject: Install problems on beige g3
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: rinse van hees <rinsed@rinsed.demon.nl>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/23/2004 17:20:27
I hope this reaches the correct people, since this is my first posting
to an mailing list.
Well onto my problem,
i recently became the proud owner of a Power Macintos G3 (the beige
one). Since i want to use it as my gateway to the internet i thought
installing NetBSD would be a good idea. So i went ahead and downloaded
and burned het netbsd macppc iso and tried to boot from it (pressing 'c'
during boot). This resulted in the machine booting nicely int mac os
9.1. So I thought i might be able to do it from Open Firmware (version
2.0f1). No succes there, so i switched to the floppies. This worked, i
got into the install sequence. since i wanted to install netbsd i
selected that option. I then selected to partition the drive with the
default options, the disks were correctly partitioned (as far as i can
see). Then it asks to select the packages, i selected everything but
games and te x11 stuff. Then my networkcard was configured, then the
packages were downloaded without trouble. Then the trouble starts.. when
trying to extract the packages everything failes, it seems that my disks
are full.. even the first files report a full disk
sample errors:
/mnt/usr/: write failed, file system full
uid 0 comm pax on /mnt/usr
and finaly my question, what is going on and what can i do about it?
kind regards
- rinsed