On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:21:54AM +0200, Szekeres Szilárd wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I've installed NetBSD 1.6 on my SS2 with the help of the netboot/nfs
> solution described in the installation document. Everything's fine, but
> during the decompression procedure of the packages, stack overflow or
> bus error-core dumped occoured. I recognized the option, that during the
> decompression the installer won't display each file. That was
> unsuccessful, only reduced installation finished well (everything, but
> the games and X type of packages).
> How can I finish the installation? I want to install the X things, that

Just download the *.tgz sets, and extract them by hand in /:
cd / && tar xzpf /.../foo.tgz

> are in the iso file. I tried to netboot the be able to start the
> installer and upgrade or modify the packages, but that was unsuccessful,
> the installer done fsck on the partitions, and asked to mark it clean or
> not. So it seems to me, that the installer cannot see which packages are
> installed.
> Is it a (serious) hardware problem?

I don't think so. Others have reported such problems, this looks like
a bug in sysinst

> I have a newbie question:
> When I bought the macine, debian potato was installed on it and the
> console was sg like a graphically displayed console (this baby has a
> 8bpp framebuffer card), the well known black one, and I were able to
> switch between them with alt+f1 and so. But with NetBSD on the machine,
> I cannot do this, and the console's look is the same as I were in the
> PROM. How can I configure the NetBSD to have virtual consoles? Is it
> possible?

Not yet. But X will work.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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