On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:09:39AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:

> After this, I told it to continue.  For some reason, formatting / failed.
> sysinst complained about a read-only filesystem.  Huh?

The exact message is:

...
Making partition 3 active.            (partition 3?? I use the entire disk
                                       for NetBSD)
Writing the NetBSD disklabel ...
Creating the new file systems on all 4.2BSD partitions...
/dev/rwd0a:   132048 sectors in 131 cylinders of 16 tracks, 63 sectors
    64.5 MB in 9 cyl groups (16 c/g, 7.88MB/g, 1792 i/g)
    super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:write error: 64
wtfs: Read-only filesystem

The program "/sbin/newfs /dev/rwd0a" failed unexpectedly with return code
Unknown error: 9216.


This happens every single time.. and doing fsck manually works every time,
but I don't know how to continue with sysinst from there.

  -jm