Subject: Re: install.sh root disk selection
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@shell.aros.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 04/10/1997 11:13:07
"Michael K. Sanders" writes:
> During one of my many recent installations, I encountered the 
> following problem: hundreds of NFS errors filled the 'dmesg' buffer
> so that install.sh was unable to find the root disk. 
> 
> How about letting the user enter a root disk, and if it's not found
> from the dmesg output, ask them if they're REALLY SURE, instead of 
> flat out denying the possibility? :)

I don't understand what it is that you are talking about. You
have not listed what version of NetBSD you are talking about, or what
architecture, and it is difficult to know what you mean by any
of this.

Perry