On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Patches and Installaton Kernels are available at:
>
>     ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst_1.6
>
> Please let me know if you have problems with the patches or the Install
> Kernels.

I built a 1.6B snapshot with your patches, and did three installs to
an IDE drive after installing drivers with either FWB HD Toolkit or
Apple Drive Setup, including a final setup with a full-house (a - h
filled). All the previously reported problems seem to be gone! Bravo!

Also tested nfs and ftp. Both fine.

There are a couple of minor problems with the fstab generation:

1) The fs_passno field is '2' for root and '1' for all others, when it
should be the other way 'round.

2) I made one partition of type "Usr" but didn't mount it. This led
to an fstab entry with a missing field, which led to dire warnings at
first boot. "sysinstall" should have just omitted that line.

Another thing threw me for a loop, but it seems to be the fault of the
Booter, rather than sysinstall. Booter 2.0.0a10 uses a wierd heuristic
for determining the root partition, while it ignores bzbFlags. I had
to get the "Name" field with FWB Tools, and put that in the Booter's
"partition" box. (Apple Disk Setup fills that field with "untitled",
"untitled 2", and so on.)

I suggest you commit to the head *real* *soon*, as NetBSD 1.6
threatens to be released on time, perhaps in only a few weeks, and
last-minute pull-up requests without a review/waiting period after
the commit to the head are liable to be shot down.

Regards,

Frederick