I've tried both the "install" and "upgrade" options of the setup 
program, if that's what you're asking, but both of them reformat all of 
the partitions on the drive.


Once upon a time (13:37 on 13 Jan 2001, actually) Richard Jenniss alleged the following

> Are you re-using existing partitions or are you re-creating them?
> I'm asking because its been a while since I installed NetBSD (:
> 
> Peace,
> Richard.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael E. Cannella" <cannella@msu.edu>
> To: <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>; <tech-install@NetBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:52 AM
> Subject: (Fwd) 1.5 install fails during device creation on cyrix dlc-40
> 
> 
> > I've been running my firewall on 1.4.2 on a cyrix 486 DLC-40 with 16M RAM
> for six
> > months or so without too many problems.
> >
> > I recently tried, unsuccessfully, to install 1.5 (booting from floppy,
> > sets on CD) .  Everything goes normally until device creation, at
> > which point there is an error:
> >
> >
> > uvm_fault (0xc2646468,0xbfefe000,0,1) -> 1
> > kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> > stopped in mknod at 0xc0251c72:mov1  0(%esi,%eax,4),%ebx
> >
> >
> > Any experience/ideas/suggestions?
> >
> > michael cannella - cannella@msu.edu
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> > One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the
> > curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this
> > will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly.
> >   --  Beryl Markham, from "West With the Night"
>