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installation problems (3C509 card)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sara C Pickett)
Sat Aug 16 17:44:46 1997
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:44:31 EDT
From: Sara C Pickett <sarac@MIT.EDU>
I've been trying to install Athena NetBSD 1.2 onto my 386 for
the past couple of days with no success. It's a 386DX with
8 megs of RAM, a 600 meg bsd partition, and a 3Com 3C509 (ISA)
ethernet card (which has been software configured to use AUI).
I'd previously installed Athena NetBSD 1.1 on it without many
problems, but of course that was a year ago and I can't remember
what I might have done differently then than now.
When I have it use the default settings it suggests of ep0 and
link0 link1 -link2, it can figure out the machine's name, and
seems to start nfs and afs correctly, but when it gets to the
section of the installation where it goes "Extracting NetBSD,
this should take 10 minutes from a dorm or 90 minutes from an
ILG on frame relay" it never continues or puts up an error message,
even when I leave it for several hours. It doesn't respond to
^C, although it is pingable.
The only problem I previously had with the machine was an occasional
memory parity error, which had been getting more frequent. That
would cause netbsd to drop into the debugger, but usually continue
would get it going again. During maybe 2 of the 20 or so times I've
tried reinstalling this machine in the past few days, it's started
giving the error "mb_map full" at the point where it usually hangs,
but I suspect that's just a manifestation of the memory parity error
and not anything to do with the installation itself.
Let's see, other stuff that might be useful... If I say yes when it
asks me if I want to be subscribed to netbsd-announce, it asks me for
my username and password, and then says:
subscribing to netbsd-announce... /srvd/usr/athena/bin/blanche:
/bin/athena/attach: not found
can't find the blanche program in the moira locker. please try
again later.
done.
and then continues with its attempt to install.
When the install floppy boots, it seems to recognize the ethernet card,
and prints a line saying that it's a 3Com 3C509 card on ep0.
I've tried the 8 different possible combinations of options from
"link0 link1 link2" to "-link0 -link1 -link2" but I've admittedly just
been guessing and don't actually know what the options mean or what
other combinations are possible. All the combinations produced the
same results: it hangs while extracting netbsd over afs. Two of the
sets of options caused it to spontaneously reboot after hanging for
an hour or so, and with one set it responded to ^C but never finished
installing if left alone.
When I had the card configured to use 10baseT, the boot floppy recognized
the card as being 3C509 on ep0, but also printed an error, and 6 out of
8 sets of options caused it to not be able to resolve my IP address (the
other 2, including the default, caused it to hang at exactly the same
point that it's hanging now).
Any and all suggestions are welcome at this point.
Thanks,
Sara
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