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Is the installer supposed to work?
I've been trying to install a new system for three hours now, but I just can't.
I've tried two USB disk images and one ISO, in a VM and on a physical system.
I report these issues just to say they exist, but I've wasted enough time with
this, so I'll just wait for things to be magically fixed.
- I've used the amd64 USB image in
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-7/201408210820Z/images/
first there's no checksum provided, MD5 and SHA512 only refer to i386.
- On the physical system: the USB installer does not ask for a language, while
the ISO does. Anyway, it's not that bad. Also, I see a
"warning: no /dev/console"
I want to install NetBSD on a specific partition - I already have linux
installed and I want to keep its MBR. When it asks for the bootcode, I say
"no", and I choose "BIOS console". Then I get a message saying something like:
"installboot: Old BPB too big, use -f (may invalidate filesystem)
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed"
and the installation stops. Of course I don't want to "invalidate" my
filesystem, so I won't use -f.
I retry, but this time I choose "use existing" instead of "BIOS console". I
get a segfault, and the installer exits.
- Wondering if it is a specific issue I reboot on Linux, and try to install the
USB image and the ISO in a VM. It does not seem to complain about installboot,
but now there's another issue: the installer can't download anything from the
ftp repository, because dhclient returns
"Shared object "libgssapi.so.10" not found"
A 6.1.4 image works correctly.
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