Hi Stingraze, yes it would be cool ... once I get it to install without coredumping!!
I'm kinda giving up on using a 2nd CF to mount. I've tried practically all permutations and it just keep hanging. Or else it gives the sickening "TLB out of universe" error which is not that much better than a "General Protection Fault
(GPF
)" if you ask me!
Then sometimes it dumps to debugger mode and I'm like ... "So what happened??" .. no clue or inkling whatsoever. Sure, I can do a dmesg and see the output log and current state of the stack pointers, registers etc, but hey, why would an average user want to dabble with all these??
Again, I must say, while we all like to poke at M$ for being a Monopoly, sometimes I wonder, even if they are a Monopoly, did anyone bestow Monopolyship on them or did they earn it the hard way? I think they earn it rightfully by making their products
(OS + Apps
) work. Sure, 20%
(or less
) of users experience nuances on first try, but most people are ok with Windows doing normal things.
ok, enough ranting.
An update:
I kinda pinpoint the coredumps to base.tgz finally. If I choose only kernel-GENERIC.tgz and etc.tgz for download via FTP and untar them, they complete successfully. Unfortunately a base install requires at least base.tgz in addition to these two files.
Otherwise, it would fail a basic sanity check. I initially read it as Sanenity check!! hahaha ... I was going to go insane with all the coredumps alright!!
But once I download base.tgz
(which completes rather smoothly via my wifi card thru FTP
), it automatically retries the untarring process for the 20th over times I've tried for the past 2 days!!
... I wish they have a prompt after all tgz files are downloaded to give users an option to save the current downloaded files or the installation image before untarring and crashing!! That way at least we can fix the buggy package and resume thereafter.
oh, and if you think Windows is unstable, each time I encounter the coredump and I reset the system, somehow the ffs partition becomes practically unmountable and unstable if I manage to mount it!!
But having said that, I'm using NetBSD2.0, and it never guarantee that it *will* work.
... and given that the last update 1.6.2 was in April last year, and 2.0 released in Dec, I might only get something up a few months later ... I'm just not about to start installing NetBSD on the common PC just to debug the OS and get it running on my MP790.
oh the other frustrating thing is this. I've read like 5 threads about how others are getting TLBs or coredump with exactly the same symptoms, and all we ever get back is "I installed 1.6.2 successfully on my MP780" or "2.0 works just fine on my machine", without outlining what different steps they might have taken. Good Grief!! Whatever happen to the OpenSource Comaraderie??
ok, will try maybe today or tomorrow ... maybe I'll get lucky!
