Re: sysinst segfaults on Alpha ("file system full") - install help

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2020 11:16:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +1100, Darren Goossens wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:10 PM Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 07:01:23PM -0700, John Ames wrote:
> > > shell with no issues, but the installer itself craps out when
> > > partitioning the disk.
> 
> FWIW I get the same problem on a AlphaServer 1200. If I just use
> sysinst naively (the only way I can), it seg faults at the stage
> described. I mention it just because this suggests it is not some
> hardware fault on the OP's machine, for example. I'm going to try with
> 8.1 to see if that works.

Yes, 8.1 will work - sysinst got big parts rewritten for 9.0, and obviously
I broke something. Will have a look ASAP....

Martin