Re: howto point sysinst to sets?

Peter Salomon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jonathan,

you are right, the cd drive was not detected. And i could not mount  
it. But putting a pci nic into the machine was the solution.
I was able to get the sets via ftp.

Now the next problem begins:
after sysinst told me the sets have been extracted succesfully i am  
not able to boot from the fresh installed disk.

It finds and executes ofwboot.xcf but there seem to be some trouble  
with the kernel:

0 > boot -v
disk2:0 -
OF_open bootpath=/bandit/53c825@11/sd@2,0
read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
starting stage 2...

 >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
 >> ([email protected], Tue Feb 10 23:44:14 UTC 2004)
/netbsd: Inappropriate file type or format
/netbsd.gz: Inappropriate file type or format
open /netbsd.macppc: Device not configured
Boot:


any idea?

and btw: wich is the most current devision of netbsd your ANS accepts?


Peter - thinking about other use of the ans... :)


Am 13.10.2006 um 23:03 schrieb Jonathan A. Kollasch:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:26:42PM +0200, Peter Salomon wrote:
> ~~
>> I want to install  netbsd on an Apple Network Server 500/132. After
>> spending many hours i managed to boot from external cd on scsi bus,
>> with a cd burned from the macppc iso image of netbsd 1.6.2.
> ~~
>> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
>> The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> [....]
>> esp0: SCSI bus reset
>
> ^^^
> this is bad.  that's the external slow/narrow SCSI controller.
>
>> scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
>> [....]
>>
>> (I)nstall, (S)hell or (H)alt ? I
>
> Note that no cd(4) devices were detected, probably
> due to the esp0 errors above.
>
> I can think of two possible ways to work around this.
>
> 1) drop a PCI NIC in the thing and pull the sets from
> a server.  (I've never gotten the mc0 in mine to ever function)
>
> 2) get a CD-ROM drive on one of the internal fast/wide
> SCSI buses.
>
> 	Jonathan Kollasch
>
> P.S.  You could always just use it as a printer stand
> or end table like I use my 700/150. :P
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