I wrote:

> 
> This is where I get to this time: as you can see, I started up from the 
> boot floppy for 1.5ZC, and that path won't work. Every time I try to 
> edit it, the install process hangs. I have reboot to open firmware (bear 
> in mind I have to do this on console, since video doesn't work).
> 
>  The following is the ftp site, directory, user, and password currently 
> ready to use.  If "user" is "ftp", then the password is not needed.
> 
>  host:           ftp.netbsd.org
>  directory:      pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5ZC/macppc/binary/sets
>  user:           ftp
> 
> Why isn''t the snapshot directory the default location on a snapshot 
> install?

well, this time I managed to avoid a reboot: after quite some 
time, I was able to successfully edit the path and get the install 
underway. But then I got hung up on not being able to get the 
xbase.tgz package and was then unable to continue. I couldn't 
unmount the filesystems. Another reboot, another trip through 
disklabeling, etc. If this current attempt fails, I'll stick with 
1.5.2 until 1.5.3 is released. This time I edited the path before 
any attempts were made to download files: so far so good, unless 
the xbase.tgz file is requested again.



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Paul Beard
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