Subject: Re: Nov24 1.3_ALPHA unofficial snapshot
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/25/1997 14:05:31
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 01:26:43PM +0100, Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> 
> See the README file for more details.  I will just note here that
> from casual inspection it appears that the fix to sysinst proposed
> in PR port-i386/4520 hasn't been integrated in the release source
> tree (which I built from).  In practice this means that if you try
> to use sysinst to install on a disk you share between multiple OSes,
> the NetBSD partition must be the last one in the MBR partition table
> in order to avoid having the NetBSD installation scribbling over the
> MBR partitions following on your disk.

It has not yet been integrated in the tree no. But I've done this and
fixed some other things, so a better sysinst (--> one that needs
work still but less than before) should be available soon. If you
are having i386 specific problems, get in touch with me. Or
just send a PR.

- Frank