Re: "sysinst" failure

["Boo Geum Jung" <bgjung%etri.re.kr@localhost>]

I finally succeeded in disk booting.

1. Do disk partition using "sysinst"
2. Mount the file system
3. Unpack distribution files.
4. Configure fstab, rc.conf, ...

Thank you very much your comments.

Now, I'm still suffering from netbsd.RAMDISK executing.
The files are insufficient to live stand alone, I guess.
More files maybe inserted in ramdisk.fs.
I'll go ahead...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Briggs" <briggs%wasabisystems.com@localhost>
To: "Boo Geum Jung" <bgjung%etri.re.kr@localhost>
Cc: <port-sandpoint%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: "sysinst" failure


> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:50:46PM +0900, Boo Geum Jung wrote:
> > Could not open /etc/disktab
> > sysinst terminated.
> > Should I put disktab at /etc directory in ramdisk.fs?
>
> That's probably a good start.  I think there are other problems that you
> may run into with sysinst.  I haven't had a chance to look at it, but I
> did have it terminate on me in several cases.
>
> You can install by hand, though.  Basically, you need to:
>
> 1. Use the disklabel program to initialize and partition your
>    disk,
>
> 2. Use newfs to make a filesystem on selected partitions,
>
> 3. Mount the filesystems,
>
> 4. Transfer the distribution files or NFS mount them,
>
> 5. Unpack the distribution files, and
>
> 6. Configure the timezone, /etc/rc.conf, passwords, etc...
>
> -allen
>
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