NetBSD on NEC MobilePro 790 - Install Issue

Hi again,

Got 5.2.3 installed last evening, but didn't have time to test it.

Tried booting it up now....

Progress bar has been at about 95% for quite a long time....decided to cancel and then saw error message window:

Fatal Application Error

Application HPCBOOT.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If problem persists, contact the program vendor.

Program: HPCBOOT.EXE
Exception: 0xc0000005
Address: 00012fb4


Tried running pbsdboot1 and got error message that it 'Can't write pbsdboot.ini'.


Tried HPCBOOT again and progress bar went to 50% very quickly then about a minute later up to 95%.

Now after a few minutes seems stuck there....clicked 'Cancel' and got same error message as above.

Tried pbsdboot1 again and clicked OK on error message....after a bit, I see NetBSD booting up!

Got the expected '/etc/rc.conf is not configured message. Multiuser boot aborted.'. Will take care of that.....

Now got # prompt....

But....get message:

/dev/contty: Read-only file system

So, can't edit or do other commands.

How do I fix this?

Thanks.

UPDATE

Apparently, read-only is due to not having system configured for multi-user boot.

Did 'mount -u /' and voila! I can edit now....

whew!




Edited by ArchiMark 2023-02-02 7:57 PM

OK, edited rc.conf.....

Got X opened!

Much easier for my ol' eyes to see text in terminal this way....

No scroll bar in xterm....ugghh....

So, would be nice to have another terminal with scroll bar...

Meanwhile, tried doing 'shift' + down arrow to scroll down, but no go.....

How to navigate in xterm?

thanks!

I'm not sure why xterm starts out with such an awful size. There is probably a way to fix that, but as a temporary measure you can resize the xterm window. In ctwm, this is a strange operation and took me a bit to figure out. What you have to do is touch on the little icon in the upper right corner of the window and then drag over to the edge you want to resize (the top, in our case) and then drag that down toward the bottom of your screen. It is HUGE so it will take a few cycles of drag-down the top and then move the window back to the top of the screen, the resize the top again etc. Let me know if that's not clear or if I missed what you were asking.

Edit: p.s. Now that I think about it, this is probably set in the .xsession or somewhere similar with -geometry. I'll look into how to really fix it later. In the meantime, here's the relevant section from the manual in case my explanation isn't clear:



Edited by thenzero 2023-02-02 10:41 PM

Got figlet!

Works!

That's great!

THANKS for the info!

Meanwhile, I did figure out I could use 'Alt' while holding stylus on the display and then dragging window up to get to bottom of xterm window and to prompt....primitive but worked....
Think this does same thing as what you describe......

OK, ready for emacs now....




Meanwhile, I just ordered some more CF cards so that I can try installing NetBSD on my little Intermec 6651.....probably arrive early next week.....

Thanks.

Nice! I'll have to try that out.

Hit a bit of a snag with emacs- it depends on perl5 which can't be cross-compiled but it quit with compile errors on the MobilePro. It's on my todo list ^_^

Crossing my fingers about emacs....

Can you also try making a better terminal than xterm?

Also, if possible a simple spreadsheet app.....

I'll see what I can do

Excellent, tz....

thanks.

Well I got past the perl hurdle on the mobilepro. Turned out the build had touched (but not built) the tokenizer object file (toke.o) but it was empty, so when it tried to link there wasn't anything there. Removing that file got it re-built normally. Then I was stymied for a day or so by some random disk errors, but now it's happily building away! Hopefully it will finish quickly and I will be able to get emacs built!

Thinking positive!

BOOM!

Perl is done. Emacs is building.

Edited by thenzero 2023-02-05 5:26 PM






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EXCELLENT!

Fingers still crossed....