Subject: Re: 1.6 sysinst full install missed some sets
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/14/2003 00:41:06
In article <200301132247.h0DMlSN03684@nucleus.styrophone.net>,
Tyler M. Mitchell <fission@nucleus.styrophone.net> wrote:

I just did a 1.6 install from CDROM and observed the same problem. This
is high priority and should be fixed for 1.6.1

christos

>Hello,
>
>I installed NetBSD 1.6 via FTP (with sysinst) and selected "Full install."
>When I rebooted, I found that several sets (games, man, misc, text, xbase,
>xfont) were missing.  The sets that were installed (such as base, comp, etc.)
>seem to be complete and missing nothing.  I did select the option to show
>the list of files as they were extracted, and it seemed to be extracting fine
>up until it finished, at which point sysinst told me that the sets had all
>been unpacked successfully.
>
>I can't really test sysinst on this machine again (I have limited physical
>access to it) but was just wondering whether anyone else had experienced this
>before.  It wasn't a really big deal for me to extract the missing sets, but
>it would be nice to know that they weren't extracted.
>
>I should mention that I used the default /usr/INSTALL directory when downloading
>the files, and that my /usr slice is 6GB, and freshly-formatted by sysinst.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Tyler Mitchell