Hey,

On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 01:08 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:

> Well, the corresponding PR
> (http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=29049) is still
> open -- like many others against sysinst...  =8/
>

well, I consider this bad. Essentially, for now I'm unable to install 
netbsd 2. I remember that sysinst for 1.6.2 was a bit buggy, but at the 
end I convinced it to work.

My last attempt was:
- partition
- format
- put the drive in a mac with more ram so that no swap is needed
- mount sd0a on /mnt
- create /mnt/usr/INSTALL
- relaunch the installation

indeed, on 2.0.2 I get as far as starting to download the packages. I 
select /mnt/usr/INSTALL as the download directory, but downloading the 
first file fails after 300k saying the disk is full. In the mounted 
partition, there are no files.

I think I tried everything now apart from resorting back to the macos 
based installer which I don't want. It is a pain but I also need enough 
diskspace to hold the tarballs, meaning I need an external HD and it is 
_dog slow_ admitted you don't get scsi problems during the process.

I Installed 2.0.2 on sparc and it worked fine with sysinst. Are the 
various sysinst versions so different? I thought that the newfs, swapon, 
mont commands were all the same for the platforms and that the 
differences between the sysinst were minimal.

-R