PR-9091.

The ramdisk is mounted read-only. You have to do a "mount /dev/md0" at the
prompt and then exit to get back to sysinst.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> hi, on the i386,
> 
> sysinst is just dropping me to the "# " prompt after the request:
> 
> Please enter a name for your NetBSD disk [mydisk]:
> 
> If I hit return, or if I type in a different name, there is a brief flash
> of text on the lower left of the screen (which is so quick I can't read it)
> and then the 
> 
> Please enter a name for your NetBSD disk [mydisk]:
> 
> is displayed again.  This time, entering anything (or just return) always
> gives me the "# " prompt, as if I had launched a shell.
> 
> Machine: K6-2/400, 128MB, Realtek 8029 PCI, UDMA 18G IBM disk.  I tried 
> turning off UDMA in the bios, but it made no difference.
> 
> "exit" to the "# " prompt gets me back to the main sysinst screen.
> 
> Any hints on what I'm doing wrong?  (I've installed many NetBSD systems,
> have never seen this happen before.)
> 
> Thanks!  -Mike
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> 
> > As noted on the alpha/arm32/i386 port page news, there are new snapshots in
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/snapshot/19991223
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/arm32/snapshot/19991223
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/19991223
> > 
> > These are companions to my previous sparc snap and the sun3/mac68k snaps
> > which should be following in short order.
> > 
> > All were built from sources checked out using "-D 19991223-UTC", with
> > patches as necessary (see cvs-diff at the top level) to make things work.
> > 
> > Note that these do not have X, and they are exportable (no crypto).
> > 
> > Todd Whitesel
> > toddpw @ best.com
> > 
> 

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