Re: Need help getting started

Okay, i got the installer started and did a default quickinstall to the
CF card. My HD is partitioned using HD Driver, which seems to do
extended partitions different than AHDI.

Greetings,
Stefan

Am 10.03.2014 07:05, schrieb Stefan Niestegge:
> Thanks for the reply, Alex
>
>
> Am 10.03.2014 00:20, schrieb Alexander Bochmann:
>> ...on Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:44:47PM +0100, Stefan Niestegge wrote:
>>
>>   > > There are six atari floppy images to be found in the
>>   > >     atari/installation/floppies subdirectory of the NetBSD 6.1.2
>> distribu-
>>   > >     tion.
>>   > This directory does not exist any more. I guess the directory
>>   > atari/installation/miniroot contains what i need.
>>
>> It's been quite some time since I installed NetBSD from scratch on my
>> Atari TT the last time, but I don't remember using installation disks...
>>
>> I think I had a harddisk prepared with three partitions, one small GEMDOS
>> to hold the tools and installation sets, one for NetBSD, and another
>> smaller
>> one for swap. Even though I have enough RAM, I used the file2swp method
>> to copy sysinst.fs to the swap partition - in the install docs, that part
>> starts from:
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.3/atari/INSTALL.html#Booting%20the%20installer%20on%20new%20systems
>>
>>
>> ...and then using the swap partition with sysinst.fs as root device.
>
> I am going to try this, then.
>>
>>   > When i boot the kernel, it ask me for root device. I tried md0a
>> and fd0a
>>   > but nothing worked.
>>
>> That should work too - although from the docs, with the 1.44MB sysinst
>> image,
>> you'll have to use "md2a" - guess there is some magic to automatically
>> load the
>> installer floppy image into a matching RAM disk depending on the
>> device name?
>
> I get a floppydrive timeout or a recalibration error displayed.
> i read in the mailinglist that the md2a approach is broken, and fd0a
> should be used instead. There was a patch suggested, too
>>
>> Did the kernel say anything about detecting your floppy drive? You
>> should be
>> fine then... On the TT it's something like:
>>
>>   > fdc0 at mainbus0
>>   > fd0 at fdc0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
>>
>> (That's copied from an old dmesg, but I don't think the message has
>> changed much.)
>
> Yes, i get these info, too.
>
>
> Thanks so far,
> Stefan