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NetBSD 6.1.4

Mon 24 Jan 2022 09:30:37 PM PST

Things that can cause NetBSD kernel to hang:

	
Boot with extensions turned off (hold Shift while booting).

  What are the problematic extentions?
  Disable all in Extension Manager; that is sufficient.

	
AppleTalk should be disabled.

  Go to Chooser and turn off AppleTalk, so that LocalTalk is the default.
  Or the transciever must be unplugged when booting, which will cause AppleTalk to be disabled.
  Then plug it in, and boot NetBSD.

boot message:
WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Cannot allocate memory

'startx' starts, then fails with something about pty not found

/etc/rc.conf had "dhclient=NO".  I forget why I did this.  Enabling it got an error from dhclient:
"No bpf devices".  Manually configure for now (/etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolve.conf, /etc/hosts)

Login is insanely slow.  How to turn down the password hashing?
man 5 passwd.conf
Changing to "sha1,3" does not work:
    # passwd chuck
    Floating point exception
Changing to "md5" did work.

Boot with color?
Yes, can leave the color depth as-is, but scrolling is very slow with 256 colors.

SCSI disk is returning sense errors.
	BlueSCSI

Would VRAM increase resolution?
Yes.  68 pin SIMM, 70 or 80 ns.  Search for "quadra vram".

Install a web browser from binary package.
Can't find any archives.  Should upgrade.
How to update 6.1.4 -> 9.2?
Re-install:
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.2/mac68k/INSTALL.html
https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.2/mac68k/installation/