Re: install/53220: sysinst dumps core with extended partitioning.

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/53220; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: martin%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/53220: sysinst dumps core with extended partitioning.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 21:02:51 +0200

 Hi Robert!
 
 (I don't know if you remember me, but we've run into each other at IETFs
 in the past, in DNSOP and DNSEXT. I'm one of the 2 m tall DNS Swedes ... ;-)
 
 kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost:
 > The following reply was made to PR install/53220; it has been noted by GNATS.
 
 > From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/53220: sysinst dumps core with extended partitioning.
 > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:17:41 +0700
 
 >  I have seen that as well, though on bare metal rather
 >  that a DomU (though to sysinst there should be little,
 >  if any, difference.)
 
 Aye. I suspected as much, but I had no bare metal to test it on.
 
 >  I used a similar workaround - just install manually.
 >  You could have done it from inside the DomU
 >  though, just tell sysinst not to install, but just give
 >  you a shell - after that, the same procedure
 >  except there's no need to vnconfig anything
 >  (which is fortunate as on bare metal there's
 >  no way to do it outside the running system.)
 
 (Sure, it's just that outside the VM i have access to all my
 "convenience tools" whereas inside it, the land is "barren and
 cold" ... ;-)
 
 >  I have been meaning to look into it - sometime - but it is
 >  not a high priority for me (system is installed now...)
 
 Understood. But maybe the famous $someone should take a look at it
 before 8.0-REL goes out the door.
 
 			Cheers,
 			  /Liman
                            (a.k.a. hostmaster ,at, i-root.servers.net,
                             or liman ,at, netnod.se (my daywork))
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