Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install

[Chris Bannister <cbannister%slingshot.co.nz@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 07:35:54AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 06/16/15 02:17, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >See also:
> >
> >http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44774
> >
> >(and some discussions around that topic on tech-install IIRC). We should
> >realy have a multi-level boot override/priority selection.
> >
> >However, I think ramdisk based install kernels like
> >
> >http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201506160230Z/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz
> >
> >should work: just exit the installer and manually use raidctl to unconfigure
> >the auto-root property.
> 
> P.S. to last reply, a bit of discussion in the man page would be extremely
> helpful on this matter :-) ....

I presume the smiley is to indicate you are joking, AIUI, man pages are
intended for reference use --- i.e. 'what option do I need for x' etc.

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