RE: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh

[Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost>]

I have no way of getting errors from the installer. Does anyone? How? Perhaps by doing the install via a serial console and being able to get text or screen grabs from another machine? Something else? Either way I've never done that but wouldn't mind any links with info. I could certainly give it a try.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:13 AM
To: Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost>
Cc: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Installations notes for NetBSD 9.1 on a G4 Power Macintosh

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:49:55PM +0000, Adam Russell wrote:
> I just did another install on another Power Macintosh G4
> (Quicksilver) I have and this time I noticed that unlike last time 
> that when I grabbed pkgsrc.tar.gz that I needed to manually bootstrap 
> pkgsrc.

You should not need to do that.

> That is, I tried to build hfsutils and got a cascade of errors about 
> digest, cwrappers, etc and something about not being able to create 
> /ftp/pub?

We need all the details here to find out what went wrong.

Martin