On 20 November 2014 13:42, Stephen Borrill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Justin Cormack wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Ottavio Caruso >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> just performed a fresh install of a Netbsd 6.1 patch (amd64) from the >>> releng repos. The installl was very smooth (I had tried a Nebsd-7 >>> install but I encountered fatal errors). >>> >>> The last time I installed 6.1.2 I remember the system booting read >>> only in single mode. I had to remount / rw and edit rc.conf and >>> restart. >>> >>> To my surprise I didn't have to do anything, the system is already rw >>> and I haven't even touched rc.conf. >>> >>> I am using wireless and didn't have to configure anything. During >>> installation it detected wireless settings automatically and installed >>> pkgsrc. >>> >>> As it is a fresh installation, has anything changed in the 6-1 installer? >> >> >> Can you file an issue for the 7.0 errors, it should be stable now >> without regressions. >> >> I don't remember 6.1 ever starting in single user mode - perhaps there >> was an issue with something last time when you installed it which is >> now fixed? The intention is that it should be ready to go... > > > /etc/rc.conf in the etc.tgz set won't boot multi-user (rc_configured=NO), > but sysinst edits this after extraction as part of the final stages of > installation. It sounds like the install was aborted before the final stages > had been run.
Thanks Stephen. To be clear, when you say "install was aborted" are you referring to my previous install or this last one? So, if I understand correctly, sysinstall should change rc_configured=NO to rc_configured=YES by default?
