Re: Testing sysinst.fs

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, David Ross wrote:

> I didn't yet have time to go through the full install, but I'm not 
> optimistic...  When I run mount, I still see that the root filesystem is 
> read-only.  So I can't create /etc/disktab, and I'd imagine sysinst won't be 
> able to do so either.

        Interesting, so the startup failed in .profile with the
        same unmatched quote error?

        What happens if you run 'sh /.profile' ?

        Could you include the output of:

            'sysctl -n kern.root_device kern.root_partition'

> prepare.fs / miniroot.fs seems to be for the old non-menu based install 
> system.  So far I've just ignored them because I want to install via ftp and 
> I don't think they support that.  Someone recently said though that they did 
> an install based on miniroot.fs.

        OK, so its possible the new sysinst system may be missing
        some step to make the install bootable which the old install
        gets right, so once we get sysinst running we may want to
        refer to it to check... but the goal is to get the sysinst
        system running fine then retire prepare.fs & miniroot.fs.

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