On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 12:25:47AM -0800, Paul Wain wrote:
> Hrm, been a while since Ive dont this, but if you dont mind installing in
> /etc by hand I think an "update netbsd" would work once you've partitioned
> the disk.

I was thinking about doing something like that.. (or just doing it all
by hand, that's the way it Works).

I fetched the install disk images of the 990131 snapshot.  Once again, I
had to enter the partitions (argh ;) and after that:

..Shall we continue?  (yes)

uid 0 on /: file system full

/: write failed, file system is full
Segmentation fault


I can imagine what a new NetBSD user does at this point.. becomes an ex-
NetBSD user :-I

> Another thing that also breaks, reguardless of if you want to install X, it
> will still fetch it! But if it does exist on the server (eg. the last 1.3I
> snapshot) sysinst fails (but of course the tar files are in /usr/INSTALL so
> that isnt a disaster and you can install by hand).

Yeah, and when it's fetching the files and something goes wrong, you have
absolutely no idea of what it was, because the screen is cleared after
the ftp messages.  Then it just says "failed".

I know it's pretty difficult to write a foolproof program for a complex
task like this, but .. the current sysinst isn't doing well at all. :-(

  -jm