Ooops, accidently did not reply to all..
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:17:51PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 06:49:00AM -0600, Robert Nestor wrote: > > > I?m thinking now that the ?install.sh? script on the CD image just > > ran the ?sysinst? that was on the boot device, not the one on the CD > > image itself. > > Yes. > > > So in this case mounting the CD on a running system and > > trying to do the installation failed because it had the wrong version > > of ?sysinst?. That probably wouldn?t happen with the USB image itself > > as there?s a ?sysinst? in it?s root directory which I?d have normally > > used. > > It also wouldn't happen if you boot the CD image directly, as in that case > the binaries inside the CD are found first. > > > If this is indeed the case then it?s probably only a minor nit > > that the ?install.sh? script on the CD doesn?t specifically use the > > ?sysinst? on that CD. > > Yeah - it just assumes that it lives in the root filesystem itself. > > > Of course had I booted the CD instead of just > > mounting it on a running NetBSD system this wouldn?t have been a > > problem either. > > Exactly. > > You could also just run the sysinst on the CD/image itself, > the install.sh script does not add anything to the whole thing when you > did not boot from the CD/image. > > Martin