At 16:23 Uhr +0100 18.5.2005, David Brownlee wrote:

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> 	On the page which says
>
> 	"We now have your BSD-disklabel partitions as:
> 	 This is your last chance to change them."
>
> 	You should have an a: partition which has
>
> 	Newfs  Mount  Mount point
> 	-----  ----   -----------
> 	Yes    Yes    Yes

This is what you get to see e.g. in i386 sysinst; the mac68k one looks
different.

Anyway... What really  happens is that sysinst does neither newfs(8) the
configured partitions, nor mount them afterwards -- although it claims it
did.

The /targetroot/{etc/fstab,usr/INSTALL} etc. pp. are created just fine,
only that they end up in the memory disk.

If you ^Z in the


 Ok, we are now ready to install NetBSD on your hard disk (sd1).  Nothing has
 been written yet.  This is your last chance to quit this process before
 anything gets changed.

 Shall we continue?


dialog, then manually newfs the desired partitions and mount them under
/targetroot and 'fg', the rest of the install runs smoothly.

	hauke

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