Subject: Sun 3/80 installation woes
To: None <bingm@stream.csis.gvsu.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@netbsd.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 06/01/1999 01:28:39
It should be possible to do the mount with this NetBSD command:
ssh> mount -o-2 192.168.1.1:/netbsd /mnt
The mount option -o-2 says "Use NFS v2"
The /bin/rcmd problem is a bug that needs to be fixed.
(That program is missing in the ramdisk root's rd_bin.)
Mind sending a PR for that?
bingm@stream.csis.gvsu.edu writes:
> Hello,
>
> I inherited a Sun 3/80 (8MB, 2 100 SCSI drives, mono monitor) from
> school without an OS, so I'm attempting to install NetBSD 1.4.
>
> I grabbed the 1.4 sun3 package (with sun3x integrated). I'm
> booting from the network with a Redhat 6.0 box on the same
> network. RARP assignes the IP, bootparamd gives the parameters,
> and it executes the netboot program.
>
> 3/80(chaos): 192.168.1.4
> Redhat: 192.168.1.1
>
> Here's /etc/bootparams:
>
> chaos root=192.168.1.1:/netbsd gateway=192.168.1.1:0xffffff00
>
> The machine boots /netbsd/netbsd-ramdisk3x and I get to ssh just
> fine, but here's the problem:
>
> ssh> ifconfig le0 inet 192.168.1.4 up
> ssh> mount 192.168.1.1:/netbsd/mnt
> ssh> cd /mnt
> ssh> dd if=./miniroot of=/dev/rsd0b
> dd: file too big
> ssh> cat miniroot
> cat: file too big
>
> I originally tried the knfsd from linux 2.2.9, which uses NFSv2, but
> netbsd-ramdisk3x only speaks NFSv3. So, I tried linux 2.2.5 with
> NFSv3 support and I keep getting the "file too big" error message
> with every read() call. I assume this is because of the alpha state
> of the linux NFSv3 server.
>
> tftp and rsh would be viable options for copying the miniroot, but
> tftp is not located on the ramdisk, and rsh does this:
>
> ssh> run -bg dd if=/dev/pipe of=/dev/rsd0b obs=8k
> ssh> run -o /dev/pipe rsh 192.168.1.1 cat /netbsd/miniroot
> rsh: Cannot execute /bin/rcmd
>
> I've used both the stock NetBSD 1.4 sun3x and the 19990518
> snapshot.
>
> I'm running through a dialup, so I don't have practical access to
> another machine with a NFSv3 server.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -matt
>
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