On Fri, 21 May 1999, greg walsh wrote:

> I installed the currnet "comp.tgz". (Downloaded from
> "mac68k/binary/sets/"  ftp site on May 14th. ) Just to make sure, I
> installed it again using installer 1.1.
> 
> Towards the end of the install, I happened to be watching the console's
> output and saw that it did indeed report unpacking "bsd.own.mk" into
> /usr/share/mk  as well as a number of other files..
> 
> When I booted and went to look, the only thing in that directory was
> "sys.mk".  Whereis doesn't find it anywhere on the disk.
> 
> I'm downloading comp.tgz again, just to see what's up.

Don't bother downloading again, that's not the problem.

You have a seperate usr partition, don't you?

I think the problem is that the installer does NOT mount all partitions
when it does things, so your comp.tgz contents are all sitting in the /usr
directory on your root fs. When your usr partition gets mounted, those
contents disapear.

Assuming you do have a seperate /usr partition, what you want to do is:
(note: DON'T do this if you don't have a seperate /usr partition!)

1) get comp.tgz into NetBSD. The first one you downloaded probably is
fine.

2) Boot single user.

3) fsck -f /   		- just to make sure the root partition is fine.

4) mount -u /   	- mounts root read-write

5) rm -rf /usr/*   	- note the "*" is important as you don't want to erase
			  the directory, just its contents.

6) mount /usr

7) tar xzf comp.tgz   (xzvf maybe?)  to install the comp set.

8) exit, booting multi-user.

Once again, don't do this if you don't have a seperate /usr partition!

Take care,

Bill