Subject: Re: Installing 1.5.2 to a PWS 600a(u)
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/22/2002 11:39:36
On January 22, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > Unfortunately, when I try installing with sysinst, the install
> > fails trying to mount /dev/sd0a on /. Shouldn't that be /mnt ?
> It should. But anyway, who is using sysinst? ;-)
>
> > Is there any way around this apart from manually creating filesystems
> > and extracting filesets ?
> Ahhh. That is the usual way to get NetBSD on anything. ;-)
> And it is the reason why I love NetBSD: It gives the user full controll.
[I must add my comment here]
Full control is very nice...but I've used sysinst exclusively, on
dozens of systems (Alpha and SPARC), for ages now. It rocks. Never
had a problem with it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf