On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Frank Wennmohs wrote:

> Yesterday I tried to install the 1.6.1_RC2 on my RiscPC
> but during the install of a completely new system the
> install system something got seriously wrong....:
>
> After installing the sets from 200303140000
> and then after unpacking those the system died when trying
> to access the hard disc again.
> A restart and trying to mount the partitions by hand
> showed the the discs inodes etc. were totally screwed up!!!
>
> Can anyone verify this?
>
> I did this on a hard disc on which I installed versions of
> NetBSD a dozen times without any problems, so I don't think
> that the hardware is damaged.

I didn't have any problems with an earlier build of RC2.. what hardware
are you running on?

I'm using the plain old internal IDE interface.

Is the problem repeatable? What happens if you restart the installation
from scratch?

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