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?
