Hi,

The PR is port-mac68k/29049.  For the simple case of one partition
I describe the solution in the PR.

cheers

bruce

Terence Tan <terence@calroth.net> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:35:08 +1100
> From: Terence Tan <terence@calroth.net>
> Subject: Re: Install problem in 2.0
> To: Mark Benson <markbenson@mac.com>
> Cc: Mac 68k NetBSD <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
> 
> Mark Benson wrote:
> > The problem I have is that I set the drive up and everything, formatted 
> > the partitions as NetBSD (swap for the swap, Root for /, USR for /usr 
> > and /home), and got all the partitions set up in the installer. However 
> > when i come to get the distro I can't get it to download...
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> This is a known problem with sysinstall on NetBSD 2.0, it's been 
> documented before at 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2004/12/08/0012.html and 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2004/12/15/0002.html and I 
> think there's a PR filed on it too.
> 
> What basically happens is, sysinstall forgets to mount your hard disks. 
> Then it can't find any place to download the archives to before 
> installing them.
> 
> I advise installing as far as you can before getting the error, then 
> just before you do: press ctrl-z to background the installer, mount all 
> your filesystems under /targetroot (for example, "mount /dev/sd0c 
> /targetroot" - but substitute your own drive names! Also be sure to 
> mount your other drives in the right place. This is a summary, if you're 
> not sure exactly what needs to be done, please ask on the list), then 
> type "fg" to switch back to the installer. Then continue your install.
> 
> Also, it does not write "/etc/fstab", so you'll want to do this yourself 
> after the install but prior to rebooting. If you're not sure what to put 
> here, again, ask and we'll sort it out.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
>   -Terence Tan
> 
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