On Sun 07 Dec, Tony Houghton wrote:
> In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.971207002142.8841A-100000@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
>           Daniel Brown <crp02@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm unsure as to whether rc.conf should be configured automagically (by
> > Configure, et al?) or by hand, but it is reported as being 'not
> > configured' because one of the first lines in it goes,
> >
> > # If this is not set to YES, the system will drop into single-user mode.
> > rc_configured=NO
> >
> > Have a look through rc.conf, filling in the blanks to suit your system,
> > and swap the NO to a YES. The rc.conf man page may be of some help, here.
> >
> > That'll get you over the first hurdle of multi-user booting, though I've
> > no inkling as to the deeper cause of the problem (if there is one).
> 
> Yes, I'm over that hurdle, but I suppose I'd better dig about a bit and
> see if I can find out what was supposed to configure it.

At present, you were. There is no automatic configuration of that
file in NetBSD, but there is work going on to have that. That
piece of code is currently under the name sysinst.

Kjetil B.
mailto:kjetil@thomassen.priv.no