Subject: re: new files in 1.5.1
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/07/2001 03:12:14
   
   > I'm checking out the 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot tree.  Noticed there are some new
   > files in there:
   >
   > binary/sets/kern-laptop.tgz
   > binary/sets/kern-tiny.tgz
   > binary/sets/xmisc.tgz
   >
   > installation/floppy/boot-big.fs
   > installation/floppy/boot-big.fs.gz
   > installation/floppy/rescue-small.fs
   > installation/floppy/rescue-tiny.fs
   
   They're not new. They were all in 1.5, too.
   
   > More importantly, these files aren't described in the INSTALL.html file.
   
   They're not supported by the installer, either (except for xmisc.tgz,
   I think). Until the installer supports alternate kernels, there's not
   much to say. Ideally, the install-laptop floppy would install
   kern-laptop as /netbsd, but I don't know that it does.


hmm?  besides xmisc, which is probably handled correclty as you say, none
of the above would be something the installer (i assume you mean `sysinst')
supports!  they are for special-case users attempting to install, and those
are the people who need documentation on what these files do.


(ps: it would seem crazy if releng didn't read netbsd-bugs.)