Subject: Re: i386 20000213 snapshot glitches
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/21/2000 09:32:06
"/" being full:
I believe pax honours the TMPDIR environment variable.
Could you try setting it to /mnt/tmp before running
systinst?
MAKEDEV needing grep:
This sounds distinctly bogus, could you submit a PR?
libkrb5.so.6:
Sounds like it was a non exportable snapshot - try
extracting secr.tgz after install.
David/absolute
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, John Nemeth wrote:
> I just tried installing the -current i386 20000213 snapshot.
> There were a few glitches with it. I used sysinst and let it do a
> clean install (wiping the drive). The first problem was that pax
> wasn't able to unpack "base.tgz" cleanly. It started complaining about
> not being able to store the modes of directories that it was creating
> and there were console messages about "/" being full. From this, I
> deduced that "/tmp" wasn't big enough. I was able to install the
> system, by clobbering anything on the RAM disk that wasn't needed at
> that point and manually unpacking "base.tgz". The second problem was
> that MAKEDEV complained about not being able to find "grep". And
> finally, telnet complains about not being able to find "libkrb5.so.6"
> making it useless. BTW, it would be nice if instructions for enabling
> a.out compatibility were placed in the snapshot directory.
>