On 12 Dec 2000, at 20:48, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:48:16 +0100
From:           	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
To:             	Dave Chapman <dchapman@canwest.victoria.bc.ca>
Copies to:      	netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject:        	Re: NetBSD 1.5 sysinst problem

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:46:33AM -0800, Dave Chapman wrote:
> > I want to upgrade from 1.4.2 to 1.5, so I made 2 boot floppies and
> > when sysinst started chose to upgrade. I was then told that sysinst
> > had found sd0, sd1, and sd2 and asked which drive to use.  I told it
> > sd1 which is where NetBSD 1.4.2 is installed.  Something flicks on
> > the screen to fast to read, then I get a message that sd3h is not a
> > NetBSD drive or that fsck has failed.  The install then aborts.
> > 
> > Help?
> 
> Remove any mount that isn't on sd1 or is not a FFS from the fstab
> before doing the upgrade.
> 
This problem occurs after booting from floppy (boot1.fs & boot2.fs).  
Do I have to physically disconnect any drive beyond sd2?

Do I have to use sysinst?  Could I just boot into single user mode of 
my current version (or using the above floppy set) and extract the 
binary distribution of 1.5 over top of the current version?
cd /
tar -zxvf <path><filename.tgz>

  Thanks,
    Dave Chapman


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David Chapman
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