On 08/16/16 14:45, Brad Spencer wrote:
Going from 2.0 or 3.0 it might be simpler to find another hard drive and
install it in the system and just reload everything onto the new drive
and swap it in.
I wouldn't be too worried about booting a netbsd-7 kernel on a v2
system. But there is a
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> I have progresses as far as having oinstalled the binary sets and
> running postinstall. However I hit a problem when I set a password
> for root, namely while I could login as another user (in group wheel)
> I get an
I have progresses as far as having oinstalled the binary sets and
running postinstall. However I hit a problem when I set a password
for root, namely while I could login as another user (in group wheel)
I get an authentication error when I try to su, and I can't get back
to a condition where
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> But the disk layout is sorely in need of revision.
I'm not trying to be trite, but have you simply considered using dump(8)
to backup your filesystems, install your chosen revision, and then restore
? I haven't been closely following the thread, so
Very gratefule for all the good advice.Here's the story so far.
First of all, I was able to boot a 7.0 kernel with no difficulty - and
in the process discovered that there have been 2 CPUs all along. But
the disk layout is sorely in need of revision. So I have tried
everything I can find:
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
[snip]
> While I have them here I want to upgrade them to 7.0 (i386). But one is
> 2.0, the other 3.0 at present.
>
> It looks as though they will not boot from their USB ports, the
> CD-ROM drives seem not to be DVD-compatible (and I'm not sure I can
With such old systems and doing upgrades, there are a few things to
worry about compared to updating one version at a time:
1) boot blocks. At least at some point for sparc, my memory is fuzzy,
but I had a problem that seems like: I think around NetBSD 3, the boot
blocks for NetBSD 3 would not
My memory us that whne booting an installation floppy the first stages involve
setting up an MFS
and proceeding to the resst of the installation over FTP, NFS or whatever. Is
there not a way of
setting up this MFS from the existing file system? I seem to remember
warnings not to power
cycle
Probably less "cool", but I've previously installed to older i386
machines by just putting their hard disks in a newer amd64 machine that
could boot from USB.
If you are still interested in a more complex setup, several people have
install scripts that could help you not miss any steps you might
=> I have two servers I have just retrieved from their regular home in a
=> data centre some distance away. (Less tha opportune interventions by
=> the staff there meant they would not accept remote logins).
=>
=> While I have them here I want to upgrade them to 7.0 (i386). But one is
=> 2.0,
I have two servers I have just retrieved from their regular home in a
data centre some distance away. (Less tha opportune interventions by
the staff there meant they would not accept remote logins).
While I have them here I want to upgrade them to 7.0 (i386). But one is
2.0, the other 3.0 at
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