On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	That would only apply in this case if the miniroot or sysinst
> > 	installer is running from the nfs root?
> 
> Correct.  I think that base.tgz doesn't extract the empty /kern directory,
> so it should only happen when a person has set up an nfs root for a
> box.  I've only ever used the miniroot once, and I don't remember having
> this problem with it.
> 
	The miniroot and sysinst tools should use the embedded ramdisk
	kernel, so they should never need a kern in a real filesystem...

> Actually, if that were the case (if base.tgz didn't create /kern), then
> all installations should suffer, not just the nfs root, right?  I've
> always done a "tar -xvpf" to extract the files when creating an nfs root
> directory, and maybe that's incorrect.  Does sysinst use different
> options to extract archives? (I'm not a pax user, so you might have to
> translate for me :-)
> 
	I think we need to know the exact error message to say more...
	Robert - can you help?

	Thanks

		David/absolute