On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> >We just installed 1.3_BETA on a 3100 today, and I have a question, and we
> >ran into some bugs w/ sysinst.
> >
> >Installing with the netbsd.ecoff kernel off of an Ultrix swap worked
> >great! Modulo pilot error. We learned about the "n" option the hard way.
> >:-)
> 
> Umm, is there a bug in the NOTES or in the INSTALL equivalent?

No. Just in our ability to read them. Pure pilot error. Especially since
I'd seen messages about it. :-)

> >sysinst bug: We installed onto a brand new disk. In the disklabel section,
> >I always got "partitions b and f overlap: errors, when the disklabel (in
> >cyl.) looked like:
> 
> 
> The label overlap-check code was broken. Some silly Antipodeawn put an
> '=' when cutting-and-pasting C code when they should've put a '+'.
> This has been fixed in the release tree, but not in the December 7
> snapshot. I'm jus tabout to kick out a new snapshot which includes
> this fix.

I figured/hoped as much. We'll look for the new snapshot for the next
machine.

> >I cobbled together enough of a system to fake sysinst to being happy with
> >an update, and all went well, except the ftp path was:
> >
> >/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-/pmax/binary/sets
> 
> Hm. This is an artifact of setting the release string to "".  You
> could try again with -r "1.3_BETA".  I don't know what else that
> mashes up, though.  I've  change the INSTALL file to drop the -r "".
> Does that work for you?

I think so.

> >My last question is how to get xdm set up. I tried just setting xfs and
> >xdm to YES in rc.conf. They run, but they don't display on the screen. I
> >also tried booting w/ the internal console off in /etc/ttys. No xdm.
> 
> Hm. Did you address the font-compression problems mentioned in the
> X11R6 README.pmax?  There's a pointer to that in the INSTALL...

Doh! Missed that one. I'll check the readme (he says as he sheepishly
grabs ftp. :-)

Thanks for all the help!

Take care,

Bill

P.S. Jonathan, enjoy your vacation!