Subject: Re: install problems on 2.0beta on i386
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/18/2004 20:43:38
"Steven M. Bellovin" writes:
> In message <20040419012452.GH3370@mewburn.net>, Luke Mewburn writes:
> >
> 
> >
> >FWIW: I installed 2.0_BETA (built from sources updated a couple of
> >days ago) onto a laptop that already had an existing 8GB WinXP
> >partition, and it worked _flawlessly_.
> >
> >This including adding a separate 10GB MBR partition for NetBSD,
> >partitioning the NetBSD disklabel, and setting up the NetBSD MBR
> >boot selector to select between WinXP & NetBSD.
> >
> >It only took 6 minutes from the time to boot off CD into sysinst
> >to the reboot into multiuser NetBSD after the installation finished...
> >
> >I haven't yet tested installing that release onto a disk dedicated
> >to NetBSD.
> 
> Right.  I'm reluctant to file a PR without *some* confirmation.  But 
> I'm planning on buying another disk soon....

Please file the PR.  I just did an install this evening from sources 
based on yesterday's tree, and the bootblocks don't even get so far 
as to print anything....  (I said "use entire disk" when doing the 
install)

Later...

Greg Oster