OpenBSD 2.0 mac68k install problems

[Paul DuBois <dubois_(_at_)_primate_(_dot_)_wisc_(_dot_)_edu>]

I've grabbed the mac68k port of OpenBSD 2.0 and am attempting to
install it.  The target machine to run the OS is an old Macintosh
IIsi I have laying around, but to speed up the install, I attached
the installation disk (an external 350MB IBM drive that I ripped
out of a Perform 6115 and stuck in an APS case) to my PowerCenter Pro
180.  I ran into the problems listed below.  (To check whether these
difficulties might simply be due to running the utilities on a
Power Macintosh, I attached the installation disk to the IIsi and
repeated my attempts.  The results were the same.)

- If I create a number of partitions on the install disk, mkfs doesn't
always see them all.  I gathered from perusing the NetBSD mac68k FAQ that
this is a common problem and that leaving a small scratch area at the
end of disk allows mkfs to see all partitions.  That seems to work for
OpenBSD mkfs, as well.

- Installer 1.1a crashes as soon as I select a file to install and
click "Done".  Installer 1.1d from the current OpenBSD snapshot and
Installer 1.1 from NetBSD 1.2.1 don't exhibit this problem.

- All installers I tried only show the first two mkfs'd partitions
(a and g when i enter the Mini-shell and run "disklabel" and whatever
MacOS partitions there might be.  For example, if I've created a third
A/UX partition as, say "A/UX Free slice 3", which I would expect to
be partition d perhaps, disklabel doesn't show it at all.  This isn't
a showstopper, since I can create a root+usr partition big enough to
hold everything.  But then I run into the next problem:

- I can install the base20 and etc20 distribution sets with no
problems.  I cannot install bsd20 - I get a message about a crc
error.  I suspect this is a spurious error because if I move the
bad20.tar.gz file to another UNIX box, I can gunzip and untar it
with no problems.  I tried moving the bsd file extracted that way
back to the Macintosh and installing it as /bsd with cpin in the
Mini-shell, but when I try to boot OpenBSD it starts loading, then
quickly panics.  (Should I use something other than cpin?)

- Several other of the distribution sets give me crc errors, too.
(I've tried re-downloading some of these from different sites, with
no luck.)

- (Cosmetic bug) All installers ignore command-M as a shortcut for
Mini-Shell until after Mini-Shell is invoked using the mouse once
from the File menu.  After that, command-M works as it should.


I tried grabbing the 2.1 mac68k distribution from the snapshots area,
and I can install base and etc (as above), but every other file gives
me a crc error.  As above, I can move the files to another UNIX box and
run gunzip and tar xf with no problems.

Any tips?  I can install NetBSD 1.2.1 with no special difficulty, now
I'd like to compare OpenBSD to it.

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