Hi,

Yea, it doesn't seem to be in the 2.1 release (as built for the ftp site).

The good news is that's it's in the 3.0 release notes:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/mac68k/INSTALL.html#NetBSD/mac68k%20sysinst%20Bug%20Alert

cheers

bruce

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:50:25PM +0100, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sysinst seems to be soewhat broken in mac68k (at least in 2.1, 1.4.2 which 
> I tried last had no sysinst).
> 
> The behaviour is documented here:
>   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2005/05/19/0003.html
> 
> I think it's a good idea to document this in the port-specific FAQ for 
> mac68k:  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/
> 
> This bug has bitten me really hard and ate lots of hours of my spare time. 
> It'd be nice to save others from suffering with the same problem.
> 
> ---
> 
> Q: When I try to install netbsd with sysinst, it dies with "no space left 
> on device".
> 
> A: What happens here is that sysinst does neither newfs(8) the configured 
> partitions, nor mount them afterwards -- although it claims it did. The 
> /targetroot/{etc/fstab,usr/INSTALL} etc. pp. are created just fine, only 
> that they end up in the memory disk - which gets full really fast when 
> unpacking the distribution files.
> 
> If you ^Z in the
> 
>   Ok, we are now ready to install NetBSD on your hard disk (sd1).  Nothing 
>   has been written yet.  This is your last chance to quit this process 
>   before anything gets changed.
> 
>   Shall we continue?
> 
> dialog, then manually newfs the desired partitions and mount them under 
> /targetroot and 'fg', the rest of the install will run smoothly.
> 
> ---
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> :wq! PoC
> 

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