Subject: more installation notes suggestions
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Terry R. Friedrichsen <terry@venus.sunquest.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/04/1997 06:49:25
Having risen early yet again, I decided to take a shot at the NetBSD-1.3
installation through the "Upgrade via diskimage" path.  I'm installing on
a DS5000/25 running NetBSD-1.2G.

I secured the latest diskimage.gz and NOTES file (actually did that on
December 2), and began following the directions.

a)  in the first paragraph (under "Upgrade via diskimage."), the word
	"booting" is missing the 'b'

b)  at step 2, you should also mount /usr, since you'll need it to
	find gunzip

c)  while you're at it, you might as well also remount / to make it
	writeable so you can copy the kernel to it

d)  the gunzip command in step 2 should read

	gunzip -c diskimage.gz | dd of=/dev/rrzXb bs=10240

	(or more simply, use gzcat in lieu of "gunzip -c")

e)  in step 7, you might want to label the dialog more clearly as an
	example using rz2 in place of rzX

And then, finally, comes failure.  The sysinst command wins the error
message "Could not initialize curses".  Yup, I did the stuff with TERM
as directed in the NOTES.

Terry R. Friedrichsen

terry@venus.sunquest.com