Re: How do you use old versions?

….I also had problems downloading 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 (phases of the moon) which I reported as a bug and think it was fixed in 7.1. I wonder if support for 16 bit PCMCIA cards was removed soon afterwards. NetBSD 7.1 would be a good place to start.

Regards

David

> On 8 May 2021, at 07:33, D Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I managed to download and install NetBSD 7.1 smoothly via FTP using my PCMCIA wifi card although don't know how to boot it or run a smesg so will leave that to Alex (thanks). For info my Z50 has 48 MB RAM.
> Regards
> David
> 
>>> On 7 May 2021, at 20:48, Alexander Bochmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ...on Fri, May 07, 2021 at 06:32:53PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>>> Testing ideas based on comments so far:
>>> - 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 & 8.0 kernels (as mentioned before, this should all be
>>> possible from a single 7.x install and just switching boot kernels)
>> I did most of that pretty much a year ago, but my notes from that
>> are not complete.
>> 7.0.2: everything seems ok, though the installer is very tight
>> on RAM, and depending on the phase of the moon setting up hard
>> disk partitions runs out of memory (I think I went back to an
>> 5.x installer in order to set up space for NetBSD on my new
>> CF card).
>> 7.2: doesn't even boot the install kernel
>> 8.0 and up: Install kernel boots, but userland throws "floating
>> point exception" left and right. Someone wrote back then that
>> other mips softfloat platforms seem to have a similar problem.
>> PCMCIA cards are detected, but none of them work (ne2k keeps
>> sending  "ne0:  where did the card go?", xi has no carrier
>> detection, everything wireless is a fail - didn't try PCMCIA
>> storage).
>> 9.x: Pretty much the same, except now CF storage is wonky too.
>> Anyways, I'll try to do some more organized testing tomorrow
>> and will feed in the results. Maybe it'll turn out that it's
>> better to abandon the hpcmips platform (or at least the z50
>> as supported system) instread of trying to fix all the mess
>> (I can do bug reporting and test builds and such, but I'm not
>> a programmer, much less when hardware is involved).
>> Alex.