In article <3CC71780.9040306@mac.com>
paulbeard@mac.com wrote:

> I should have realized I was seeing the same problem as I saw on 
> my initial install(s): DNS resolution just doesn't happen in the 
> install kernel. I can ping just fine, so the network is up and I 
> have a route out to ftp.netbsd.org. I just can't use the hostname: 
> changing the host to the numeric address works fine.

Binaries on ramdisk in old snapshots before March do not support
DNS resolving. Newer snapshot should support it.

> The error is not exactly obvious (though it should have been to 
> me): I get errors on ftp -a not being able to pull down the sets, 
> and it looks more like a missing file or path error than a failure 
> to connect.

Not all snapshot has X sets. In such case, you can't specify them.

IMHO, sysinst should continue installation if there is
no _fatal_ errors on extracting tar files, though..
(see src/distrib/utils/sysinst/util.c:get_and_unpack_sets() )
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Izumi Tsutsui
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