On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, "Conrad T. Pino" <NetBSD-Current@Pino.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this a brand new install or an upgrade from prior NetBSD version?

I overwrote the previous failed -current snapshot.  

Or, rather, I thought I did.  Mumble.  

When I ran sysinst the second time, I didn't bother to repartion the
drive, a tedious step.  I just reinstalled sets.  That almost worked, but
of course it didn't *remove* what was there from the -current
installation; it just unpaxed what was in its own sets.  That left a
smattering of files in /etc/rc.d from the previous install, and it was
those that triggered the the warning messages.  

I moved etc to etc.jkl, reunpaxed etc.tgz, and, a little diff+patch later,
I has a working etc directory.  Plus copying a few things, not least of
which was fstab.  

I think if I'd chosen "upgrade" (even though it was a downgrade), I'd have
had better luck.  

In case you think your message was to no avail, though, let me say that it
was in the process of answering your questions that it dawned on me what
might be wrong.  

I still would love to know where those "sysctl" messages came from,
though.  

As a younger person or a user of a proprietary system, I'd have had to
erase the disk and begin again.  Which would have worked, even if tedious.
 This way, I'm happy.  I understand what happened, and, you know, that
hole in my foot where the bullet went though, it'll heal.  

--jkl