The following reply was made to PR install/34458; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/34458 (bootlap[12].fs does not install laptop kernel)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:53:38 +0000

 On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:48:56AM +0000, jmmv@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: bootlap[12].fs does not install laptop kernel
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: jmmv@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:48:55 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > The problem here is that all boot floppies have the same sysinst in them and
 > sysinst does not know anything about the specific ram disk/boot floppy that
 > was used.  Hence, it defaults to GENERIC.  You can select GENERIC_LAPTOP by
 > doing a custom installation though.
 > 
 > A possible solution could be to make sysinst inspect the name of the kernel
 > used and try to deduce the kernel to be installed (e.g. s/INSTALL/GENERIC/
 > and see if the resulting name exists as part of the distribution).
 
 RTFC - it does some of that, but not for LAPTOP...
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk