On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Simon Burge wrote:

> 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...

You're welcome. I DO like what I've seen, and I'd love for it to be
better. :-)

> 
> 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?

That would probably be fine. Certainly 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?

November 30. It's the i386 1.3_BETA snapshot on ftp.netbsd.org.

Take care,

Bill