Hi,

I built 1.6ZI release a few days ago on cross-building. I tried to fresh
install it, but no luck, I got same error as before 1.6ZH.

    About "BAD SUPER BLOCK", 1.6ZI boot message showed (once in the
    first booting) how to restore an alternate superblock and complete
    the filesystem upgrade. We see the same;
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/UPDATING
    (By the way, why is the filesystem changed? I guess it makes so many
    troubles ...)

Does anyone get a success in the -current(1.6ZG, ZH or ZI) installation
using sysinst normal method?

Thanks,
Kazu Inanaga


At 10:03 PM +0900 04.1.14, Kazuyuki Inanaga wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I recently came back to NetBSD after long absence, and I'm embarassed in
>-current sysinst changes. Could anyone advice me how to use it?
>
>I built 1.6ZH release on i386 cross. I tried to install it on my Quadra's
>external HDD.
>My procedure was;
>
>1) Format HDD and make one "Free A/UX slice3" partition.
>2) Boot sysinst
>3) After partitioning the disk, sysinst said;
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Okay, the first part of the procedure is finished. Sysinst has written a
>disklable to the target disk and newfs'ed and fsck'ed the new partitions you
>specified for the target disk.
>
>The next step is to fetch and unpack the distribution filesets. Press
><return> to proceed.
>
>
>                                     Setting up the disk partition map ...
>-------------------------------------------------------
>It seemed sysinst didn't do newfs.
>After waiting for a while, I pressed <return> anyway.
>
>4) At the next step "command /sbin/fsck_ffs /dev/rsd1a", I got;
>
>/dev/rsd1a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: CAN'T FIND SUPERBLOCK
>/dev/rsd1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY.
>
>5) I've seen this before on i386 or other 68k Macs.
>so I turned into "Utility menu" and "Run /bin/sh".
>
>disklabel /dev/sd1a
>  (I confirmed "disk partition map" was made by sysinst)
>newfs /dev/rsd1a
>fsck_ffs -b 32 /dev/rsd1a
>
>**** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ****
>
>6) Then, back to "Install netbsd to hard disk" again.
>
>Partitioning the disk (already done, not touched)
>[....]
>Select medium "ftp" and Set up the network
>
>7) Get distribution
>
>What directory shall I use for ftp? [/usr/INSTALL]
>
>When sysinst got about 480 KB,
>ftp: local: kern-GENERIC.tgz: No space left on device
>ftp: No control connection for command
>
>I tried this installation several times, but the process stopped here
>always. Why does sysinst say "No space left on device"? This strange
>behavior (just for me?) is not only 1.6ZH sysinst but also 1.6ZG.  Does "BAD
>SUPER BLOCK" cause this?
>
>Unavoidably I made fstab first in Utility menu, and chose "Re-install sets".
>It worked with no problem, and 1.6ZH is running on my Quadra now. I don't
>think it is the proper way, of course. I'd like to know how to use -current
>sysinst.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Kazu Inanaga