On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Laine Stump wrote:

> At 02:00 PM 2/17/00 +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> >is there anything more recent than the i386-snapshot from 23.12.1999.
> 
> (This message went by on current-users. I haven't tried this snapshot, but
> haven't seen any bad reports either)
> 
> At 01:52 AM 2/13/00 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > Subject: 20000212 i386 snapshot available
> >
> > In ftp://smaug.fh-regensburg.de/pub/NetBSD/snapshots/20000213/i386/
> > That's what a "make release" did for me - use at your own risk.
> 
> >BTW: sysinst fails after confirming the disklabel name which by default is
> >[mydisk]. It complaints about missing fstab. An attempt to create
> >fstab and disktab by hand fails due to readonly root_disk filesystem.
> 
> That's happened for every machine/person I've heard of trying to use that
> version. I just used the boot diskettes from the previous snapshot; they
> worked fine.
> 

There is a text file in the same directory as the boot floppies that
states that there is a known issue with those disks. Directions to remount
the filesysem correctly:

exit sysinst
mount -u /kern/rootdev /
mount /dev/md0 /
sysinst

--jon