Hi all :)! When installing NetBSD, there is sometimes need to go to a prompt to read dmesg or run some other commands. This is possible (and suggested by the guide), typing Ctrl+Z: then, sysinst(8) itself prints that it can be resumed typing `exit' or Ctrl+D.
With the NetBSD 8.0 sysinst(8) on amd64, `exit' or Ctrl+D produce the effect to restart sysinst(8) from the beginning, so any possible setting/setup made till that point is lost. I would like to signal this for anyone who tries to install NetBSD 8.0 and needs to suspend sysinst(8). Leot and I investigated a bit about this problem and it seems to be an sh(1) bug. It was not present in -current. In 8.0, after having updated and rebuilt the code of sh(1), sysinst(8) worked correctly. The problem continues to affect, obviously, all the (at least, amd64) existing install images of NetBSD 8.0, with the related version of sh(1). Bye! Rocky
