Subject: Re: recent boot.fs for 1.4?
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Scott Presnell <srp@zgi.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/09/1999 14:15:16
"Chris G. Demetriou" wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> > > Is there a more recent boot.fs image around with
> > > a fixed/patched/updated sysinst that would allow
> > > for an upgrade sans sysinst.core?
> >
> > I'm upgrading a box to the NetBSD-release branch (what will be 1.4.1).
> > As soon as it's done (make build on it should not take more than
> > 3 hours) I'll build a boot floppy image. It *should* be better than the one
> > in 1.4, but as my install test box is dead I can't test it rigth now.
> 
> The problem that causes sysinst to croak when upgrading old
> installations (1.3.2 and earlier, i dunno about 1.3.3) to 1.4.x has
> _NOT_ been fixed.
> 

Indeed, I can confirm the the boot.fs image I got from Manuel still throws
a FPE (it was on a test machine so there was no problem performing
an "install" instead.)

	- Scott