Subject: Binary distribution of /etc
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Harry Schreurs <HLS@oce.nl>
List: port-sun3
Date: 05/19/1994 16:14:05
> The prom console has been replaced by the zs console.

OK. I was not aware of this.

I just started using the provided GENERIC conf file.

In order to be able to compile, I had to change one line of
the config file into:

    config      netbsd swap nfs

I think that the kernel, that was build by me, is OK!
Booting this kernel gives the following message:

    May  18 21:23:202 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory

This is not suprising, I don't have anything in my /etc directory.

I only have two directories: sbin and bin, which are populated
with the supplied pre-compiled binaries.

From an other workstation this kernel even responded to ping.

But the bad part is, that it doesn't respond to my keyboard.
Watching the #-prompt, I am not able to type in any command!!

Question 1: What should go into /etc? In the source distribution there
is no etc.sun directory in src/etc! For all other architecture there is a 
etc.xxx directory ;-) 

Question 2: In absence of a MAKEDEV script I don't know what to put
into /dev. I am interested in what device is opened by init, to get
input from the keyboard. Is init still trying to use the prom driver
instead of the zs driver?

Thanks in advance


Harry Schreurs

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