At 9:21 Uhr +0200 17.5.2005, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>well, I consider this bad.

It is. If people cannot install th elatest NetBSD/mac68k release... well,
they won't. And dump the Mac and get a PeeCee and install L!nux.

But while it is bad that this PR doesn't get fixed, and the fix pulled up
to netbsd-2-0[*] as well as netbsd-2 and netbsd-3, the fact that the error
was in 2.0 in the first place shows that we, the users, didn't test
properly. Which is just as bad.

>Essentially, for now I'm unable to install
>netbsd 2. I remember that sysinst for 1.6.2 was a bit buggy, but at the
>end I convinced it to work.
>
>My last attempt was:
>- partition
>- format
>- put the drive in a mac with more ram so that no swap is needed
>- mount sd0a on /mnt
>- create /mnt/usr/INSTALL
>- relaunch the installation
>
>indeed, on 2.0.2 I get as far as starting to download the packages. I
>select /mnt/usr/INSTALL as the download directory, but downloading the
>first file fails after 300k saying the disk is full. In the mounted
>partition, there are no files.

Did you try the following?

On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 02:46 PM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
#I seem to remember that you could just go /bin/sh, newfs /dev/xxxxx,
#mount it, mkdir /mnt/etc, create fstab, and then umount it.  Then repeat
#the install :-(

Because what's missing from your list above is the creation of /etc/fstab
after the newfs. If sysinst doesn't set up that, it'll create ./usr/INSTALL
in the mfs.

	hauke



[*] Could some kind NetBSD developer please bump the priority of PR 29049
to 'critical/high'? For it is...


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