On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:10:03PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > On 21 May 2014 12:25, Roy Bixler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:11:14PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > I am new to this list but not to NetBSD. I tried NetBSD long ago when > > > it was at v. 1.6. I have come back to it in part because I have some > > > old hardware and prefer a lighter OS and in part because I do not like > > > the recent trend in the Linux world towards replacing the init system > > > with something like systemd. > > > > > > I came back to NetBSD with the 6.x series and my first few > > > installations of it went flawlessly. However, I came upon a > > > configuration where I could not install it. It is a dated PC with a > > > SiS chipset. > > > > Just to follow up, I got the installation to go by setting up a PXE > > boot. The system boots up just fine with NetBSD 6.1.4 afterwards. > > I also took a look at the bug tracking system and see that there are > > still some old, unresolved bugs regarding DMA timeouts with SiS IDE. > > I suppose I could add to one of those tickets when I have some time. > > It would still be nice to be able to use the CD-ROM as an installation > > media on this system. > > Out of curiosity are you able to mount and copy the files off the CD from > the installed system?
I didn't expect that this would work and, after trying, I confirmed my suspicion. After the initial boot, the system wouldn't recognise that there was a CD-ROM in the drive. After reloading the CD, I was able to mount it, but then I quickly got a read error when trying a "du" command on the filesystem. -- Roy Bixler <[email protected]> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
