At 3:21 PM -0800 on 05/21/99, Bill Studenmund wrote:

>You have a seperate usr partition, don't you?

Why yes, as a matter of fact I do! : )

>I think the problem is that the installer does NOT mount all partitions
>when it does things, so your comp.tgz contents are all sitting in the
>/usr
>directory on your root fs. When your usr partition gets mounted, those
>contents disapear.

Ahhhhhhh.....

Sooooo.... I followed your directions, untarred the comp.tgz file and
low and behold the mysterious missing files appeared.

Thanks!  I was really scratching my head.   Is this in the faq
anywhere? It seems that if the installer doesn't mount all partitions
when doing an install --this fact and your solution would be a valuable
item to add to it or to the Package.txt file.

So then I tried a "make", and that's when I learned that I have to have
my modem installed and configured in order to do a one.  Is this
correct?  This info was alluded to in the Package.txt file.  But for
some reason I thought that I when I unpacked pkgsrc.tar.gz I was
unpacking the current source code and patches for all the packages.
What did I unpack?

Thanks for your help, Bill...

greg

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# Bills solution to the missing comp.tgz files


>Assuming you do have a seperate /usr partition, what you want to do is:
>(note: DON'T do this if you don't have a seperate /usr partition!)
>
>1) get comp.tgz into NetBSD. The first one you downloaded probably is
>fine.
>
>2) Boot single user.
>
>3) fsck -f /   		- just to make sure the root partition is fine.
>
>4) mount -u /   	- mounts root read-write
>
>5) rm -rf /usr/*   	- note the "*" is important as you don't want
>to erase
>			  the directory, just its contents.
>
>6) mount /usr
>
>7) tar xzf comp.tgz   (xzvf maybe?)  to install the comp set.
>
>8) exit, booting multi-user.
>
>Once again, don't do this if you don't have a seperate /usr partition!
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill