Subject: Re: 1.5 installation trouble
To: Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org>
From: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/11/2001 18:41:33
Yes, the sun3 install could use some work.
The simplest way to do this:
Unpack base and etc into your NFS area. Put the INSTALL kernel as /netbsd.
Boot diskless, partition the drive, newfs it.
Then mount all the partitions under /mnt
Unpack all the tarballs into /mnt
Add /mnt/etc/fstab
cd /mnt/dev
./MAKEDEV all
Install boot blocks
Copy the GENERIC kernel into /mnt/netbsd
If you want, presetup /mnt/etc/rc.conf
Then you should be able to boot native.
James
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>Hi,
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>OK, I've now crossed this hurdle. To do so required using the
>RAMDISK kernel from the 20000610 snapshot; the 1.5 RAMDISK kernel
>is most definately toast (i.e. does not work). The newer
>(20010113) snapshot does not even contain a RAMDISK kernel.
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>I also had to search around a bit to discover that the Sun-3/60
>boot ROM requires you to disable parity on the SCSI bus before it
>wants to deal with the drive (as in "boot from it"). That must
>be a rather obvious candidate for an addition to the install
>notes...
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>The kernel installed by the miniroot installer is the INSTALL
>kernel, and that one doesn't have rnd(4) enabled. This caused
>ssh-keygen to not generate an RSA key, and sshd thus disabled
>version 1 operation. Not exactly ideal.
>
>Thus, I'm now compiling a new kernel for my machine, to get
>moving further along.
>
>- Håvard
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