[808] in NetBSD-Development
sdfranks installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 21 21:06:13 1995
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 21:02:06 -0400
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
I went to New House and coaxed field-of-dreams through its
installation. The problems were:
* For some reason, ping was getting a packet from the router
when flags was set to "link0" (instead of "link0 link1"),
even though if you then went and tried to ping the router
manually, you wouldn't get any packets.
I set the interface manually to get around this. I will
modify the installation script to ask for the interface and
flags (with defaults) so that users can override mistaken
flags.
* The MBR partition table had the wrong information on the
second disk. I ran "fdisk -u" to get around this. I'm not
sure if we can do anything about that problem.
* The floppy had a bad sector such that the device numbers for
/dev/rwd1f couldn't be read. I created a /tmp/rwd1f so I
could newfs the /u1 filesystem.
* After rebooting, the system seemed to have hung on "Building
databases...". The disk light was off for about five
minutes before I rebooted. When I ran kvm_mkdb and dev_mkdb
by hand in single-user mode, it worked fine, and when I
rebooted it got past that point immediately.
* Although the kernel reported "lpt2 at..." at boot time and
reset the local printer, it reported "Device not configured"
when I tried to write to any of the /dev/lptN devices. I
didn't get the local printer working.
There are also some minor problems with the Athena software (login
needs to use /etc/athena/shellcvt, it syslogs annoyingly when you
don't have a srvtab, the efault shell runs into a limit error if you
log in on the console, and if you log in as "ghudson" it doesn't set
my prompt correctly, and of course "too many groups").
