Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.4.2 Split disksets
To: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/29/2000 15:58:44
> Well, the problem is that sysinst "knows" (actually, thinks it knows), how
> many parts are in each set.  And this table wasn't updated after the split.
> So sysinst thinks base has only parts aa-bw where it actually has aa-by,
> and thus it misses the last two of the split files.
> 
> We really need a better mechanism to handle this.

Why not store this information in a file on the first floppy so it's not
hardcoded in -- that way one could use say a 1.4.1 installation disk to
install 1.4.2 and vice versa.

Jared