On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:19:07PM -0700, Jonathan Cline wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy C. Reed [mailto:reed@reedmedia.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:25 AM
> > To: jcline@ieee.org
> > Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: install/17081: install on small drive doesn't create /tmp
> > 
> > 
> > > >Synopsis:       sysinst does not create /tmp with auto partitioning
> > 
> > > What I noticed, post-install, was that there was no /tmp.
> > 
> > > It didn't make a /var either, but not all systems have /var,
> > 
> > Then did you select and install the "base.tgz" set?
> > 
> > It contains the /tmp and /var directories (that are put on your /
> > partition).
> > 
> >    Jeremy C. Reed
> >    http://www.reedmedia.net/
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hmm.  I selected a full install.  It must have installed the base set.  
> 
> My first run through, I selected 'all' and it failed since there's no X* in the 1.5.3_RC2 directory.  My second attempt, I unselected all X.  I've since built bash, perl, apache, samba, etc etc on this system without problems, not sure if these would work without base (?).

It wouldn't either work without /tmp or /var, so I suspect something
deleted these directories.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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