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
>