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Installation Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ravi A Nanavati)
Thu Sep 17 14:57:14 1998
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:56:58 EDT
From: Ravi A Nanavati <ravi_n@MIT.EDU>
I want to upgrade my relatively old NetBSD-Athena installation to the
latest release. Everything I want to save is already on a Jaz disk, so
I tried just running the installation and planned to let it blow
away my existing NetBSD partion, but I'm having a problem.
Everything seems to work fine (kernel boots, gets my hardware right,
network works...) until the install script tries to load AFS. Then
is says (more or less - this may not be exact since I don't have
the computer in front of me):
AFS module loaded as ID 0
Starting AFS cache scan...
and then nothing happens (for hours). I can hit ^C to break out of
the install script and do things (and I used this to check
that the network actually is working), but the installation won't
go any further.
Any ideas on what is gonig wrong and how to fix it?
For reference, my hardware is:
Gateway 2000 G6-200 (Pentium Pro)
3COM 3C509 ethernet card,
Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller
(which is connected to a SCSI CD-ROM and a Jaz drive)
SBAWE32 PnP (manually disabled to make NT happy)
2.5G Western Digital EIDE hard drive
Matrox MGA Millenium video card with 4 MB WRAM
Gateway Telepath 33.6 modem
Thanks,
- Ravi
