Re: Problem installing NetBSD 7.1.1 on my SparcStation 5

Unfortunately I can't find the MAKEDEV script in base.tgz.

[root@soqc1-jumpstart1 ~]$ /usr/sfw/bin/wget ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1.1/sparc/binary/sets/base.tgz
--2018-01-16 21:28:45-- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1.1/sparc/binary/sets/base.tgz
...
[root@soqc1-jumpstart1 ~]$ gunzip base.tgz
[root@soqc1-jumpstart1 ~]$ tar -tvf base.tar | egrep "MAKEDEV|./dev/" | grep -v /usr/include
lrwxr-xr-x 0/0 12 Dec 22 21:56 2017 ./dev/log symbolic link to /var/run/log
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Dec 22 21:37 2017 ./dev/altq
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Dec 22 21:37 2017 ./dev/fd

So I copied it from another working NetBSD server and netbooted the SS5 with the NFS Share on Solaris. It kind of worked and not. I mean I didn't see the "File too big" error when doing a "ls -lh /dev" but I started to see "sh: can't access tty: job control truned off" when starting a shell and when I try to install it fails with "I can't find any hard disk for use by NetBSD. You will be returned to the original menu"

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 08:27:18AM -0500, Julien Savard wrote:
>
> It seems there might be something not working between Solaris NFS Shares
> and NetBSD /dev in rootfs.tgz or it might also be the Solaris "tar" instead
> of the GNU tar ( just tought of that one ) not extracting the /dev as it
> should.
>

Just for the record (and in case you were not aware) there is a gnu tar
binary in /usr/sfw/bin/gtar on a standard solaris 10 install.

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