Subject: Re: Sysinst confusion and recommendations.
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Markus Illenseer <markus@core.de>
List: current-users
Date: 07/13/1998 20:36:11
> * Section 8.6 Installation from a local Directory
> This hung me up, because it wasn't intuitively obvious that I was
> suppost to put in /mnt/????? as part of the directory name. If
> Sysinst is going to mount the upgrader's file system to /mnt,
> shouldn't it at least tell him that? It would be nicer if it just
> Pre-pended /mnt to the Directory Name supplied.
I have experienced this issue myself. The Amiga installation tool
features sort of browser through your filesystems - I'd like to see
that implemented into sysinst.
> No Multi-user mode - No Login. I got stuck here because I
> couldn't figure out how to edit rc.conf. None of my editors
> worked. I'm going to re-boot to 1.2.1 and clean-up the 1.3.2
> install.
Guess why I am still using vi - after 14 years of evil experiences... :-)
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Markus Illenseer