On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
[dbootstrap display on serial console vs `linux' console. > It already does. The standard dialog is through newt (I think). Depending > on the TERM, it uses color and/or extended ansi to create dialog boxes and > such. Being that you are from a dumb terminal, it chooses the least common > denominator, which is simple text based dialogs. |# echo $TERM |linux |# Doesn't look like it knows I'm on a `dumb' terminal. [more stuff snipped] > > It might have been a permission problem. I noticed that the sun4* > > directories were empty save for `index.html' (I ran wget on the base > > directory) I'm getting those right now then trying the http fetch from my > > local server. Oookay. wget isn't properly getting.. > > More than likely it was because you caught me in the middle of unpacking > the stuff :) *g* > > And I find that the `network' installer method can't resolv hostnames(!) > > |nf_http_fetchfile :: xia01.kachinatech.com:80 couldn't be > > |resolved, Host name lookup failure (errno=2). > > > > Funny thing is, I can shell out and resolve hostnames. > > > > |# ping debian.midco.net > > |pavlov.midco.net is alive! > > > > Odd...well the http method is still being developed, so I guess we will > see how it goes. Hmmmm. I can't try an NFSroot install because NFS doesn't want to mount, and I still don't know WTF is up with floppy support. Slink's dbootstrap can read the floppies I feed it, but I can't seem to read them after I boot the installed system. Do you know of a way I can mount ext2fs under NetBSD?
