[316] in NetBSD-Development
More stuff in the install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 25 15:37:12 1994
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 15:36:58 -0500
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Thanks to Benjamin Cline (a sysadmin who I used to work with at Athena
Design), I was able to produce a NetBSD kernel that always detects the
3c509 on startup without specifying the port address (instead, you
build it with only the 3c509 driver and no other network cards, and
that seems to work). Therefore, we can distribute a kernel with the
Athena installation that overcomes that problem with the 3c509. Since
we also have to choose between AHA and BT SCSI drivers, that makes
four kernels. I modified the installation script to ftp the kernel
separately from dist.tar.gz so that it doesn't eat up an extra 6MB or
so of temporary disk space just for the kernels.
I also modified the installation script to set the time zone to
US/Eastern, and I modified the kernel fallbacks to be "5 dst" instead
of "8 dst".
Finally, I had the kernel move /etc/aliases out of the way during
installation (as a safety check, it looks for /etc/localusers first,
but the script isn't really meant to be run on a machine that hasn't
been freshly installed, so this is mostly just paranoia). The
existence of the default /etc/aliases file was causing outgoing MH
mail to fail unless you ran "newaliases" by hand (which still produces
a bunch of errors, but creates /etc/aliases.db so sendmail doesn't
generate the errors at run time).
So, there are two issues left. First, my virtual console gets garbage
on the screen during the login prompt (it's fine once I log in), using
the same /etc/ttys file as granola. This isn't a big deal. Second,
my machine falls off the net periodically, and comes back if I
re-ifconfig the interface. This problem seems to be specific to 3c509
cards with an AUI interface; granola doesn't have it, and Benji
doesn't have it, and they both use BNC. I don't know if it happens
with UTP; I'm planning to try using my machine with UTP for a while to
test this, borrowing a repeater or something from E40.
