Hello,

I recently came back to NetBSD after long absence, and I'm embarassed in
-current sysinst changes. Could anyone advice me how to use it?

I built 1.6ZH release on i386 cross. I tried to install it on my Quadra's
external HDD.
My procedure was;

1) Format HDD and make one "Free A/UX slice3" partition.
2) Boot sysinst
3) After partitioning the disk, sysinst said;
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Okay, the first part of the procedure is finished. Sysinst has written a
disklable to the target disk and newfs'ed and fsck'ed the new partitions you
specified for the target disk.

The next step is to fetch and unpack the distribution filesets. Press
<return> to proceed.


                                     Setting up the disk partition map ...
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It seemed sysinst didn't do newfs.
After waiting for a while, I pressed <return> anyway.

4) At the next step "command /sbin/fsck_ffs /dev/rsd1a", I got;

/dev/rsd1a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: CAN'T FIND SUPERBLOCK
/dev/rsd1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY.

5) I've seen this before on i386 or other 68k Macs.
so I turned into "Utility menu" and "Run /bin/sh".

disklabel /dev/sd1a
  (I confirmed "disk partition map" was made by sysinst)
newfs /dev/rsd1a
fsck_ffs -b 32 /dev/rsd1a

**** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ****

6) Then, back to "Install netbsd to hard disk" again.

Partitioning the disk (already done, not touched)
[....]
Select medium "ftp" and Set up the network

7) Get distribution

What directory shall I use for ftp? [/usr/INSTALL]

When sysinst got about 480 KB,
ftp: local: kern-GENERIC.tgz: No space left on device
ftp: No control connection for command

I tried this installation several times, but the process stopped here
always. Why does sysinst say "No space left on device"? This strange
behavior (just for me?) is not only 1.6ZH sysinst but also 1.6ZG.  Does "BAD
SUPER BLOCK" cause this?

Unavoidably I made fstab first in Utility menu, and chose "Re-install sets".
It worked with no problem, and 1.6ZH is running on my Quadra now. I don't
think it is the proper way, of course. I'd like to know how to use -current
sysinst.

Thanks in advance,
Kazu Inanaga