Re: 9.1 install comments

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 04:03:22PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> >> I picked "CD-ROM / DVD / install image media" as the source of the
> >> sets.  I got a display showing me
> 
> >> Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
> 
> >> and
> 
> >> Command failed
> 
> > Note that boot.iso this is just a boot cd, it doesn't have the sets.
> 
> Then I guess the issue is, why did it offer me that option, and, if the
> CDs aren't built with sets on them any more (as is implied by this
> being the case on possibly the most important single port there is),
> why is the option still in the code at all?

because you could get them from another cd, if you have 2 cd drives.

> (Also, why aren't the CDs
> built with sets on them any longer?  Seems to me it's an unnecessary
> barrier to installs.)

they are, you just need to get the right image: images/NetBSD-9.1-amd64.iso
(the bits in installation/ has just the needed bits to boot and get
sysinst running, and it has always been this way, as far as I remember)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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