On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:00:45 -0800 (PST)  Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Howdy!
> 
> I just had an opportuntiy to upgrade an i386 to 1.3_BETA using sysinst.
> I'm posting here as the concerns/frustrations I ran into are M.I.

Thanks for the feedback...

> The main thing was how it went about installing the distribution sets. The
> lesser concern was that it insisted on installing a kern.tgz set. I have
> enough disk space on this machine to track the current kernel, so I
> already have a 1.3_BETA, customized kernel. I don't really want the 1.3
> kernel. :-)  I understand disabling the kernel install is dangerous, lest
> a user try to run a kernel older than the userland, but some sort of
> option (probably with a "are you sure" "are you REALLY sure" quiz) would
> be nice.

Hmm, I guess the simplest "fix" for 1.3 is to document this behaviour
well - "If you have your own kernel at /netbsd, back it up because
sysinst will extract the ``kern'' distribution set which will overwrite
any current /netbsd file".  Good enough for now?

> The big complaint was on where it found the sets. I understand from
> reading previous messages that "local" ment local, unmounted partitions. I
> didn't see any option for local, mounted partitions. Basically before
> upgrading, I threw the install dinstributions on the same hard disk on
> which I was going to install. How should I have handled that? sysinst got
> upset when it couldn't mount wd0a (as it was already mounted).

This has already been fixed (recently, December 5) in the 1.3 branch.
How old is the snapshot you tried?

Simon.