Re: port-mac68k/54926: sysinst for NetBSD/mac68k 9.0_RC2 doesn't partition or newfs discs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-mac68k/54926: sysinst for NetBSD/mac68k 9.0_RC2 doesn't
 partition or newfs discs
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 20:15:17 +0100

 On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:40:00PM +0000, bpfoley%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > To install 9.0, I wrote /dev/zero to the entire disc, and recreated the 80MB partition.
 
 Can you show the exact partitioning details it has after that?
 
 > NetBSD 9.0 RC1 and RC2 shows the same partitioning interface, but when I provide the same settings, it fails to re-partition the disc, and doesn't run newfs.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 1. Boot sysinst on a disk with no NetBSD root/usr partition.
 > 2. Create swap and root/usr partitions
 
 How exactly do you create them? The defaults will depend on the ammount of
 RAM you have installed and the disk size, so please switch to "sectors" as
 size unit and note the start / size of each partition.
 
 > 3. OK the partition creation step in the user interface.
 > 4. newfs step doesn't occur, and package installation fails with an out of space error.
 
 This usually means the editing frontend did accept partition data that
 the  backend then fails to represent (due to a bug). The failure mode
 should probably be more verbose.
 
 Martin