#	$NetBSD: LAST_MINUTE,v 1.54 2000/11/18 22:56:49 he Exp $

This file contains important information on the NetBSD 1.4.3 release
that did not make it into the main documentation.

[all platforms]

	1. Additional source patches available

	The directory .../NetBSD-1.4.3/source/patches/ contains patches
	against the 1.4.3 sources for various bugs discovered after the
	formal release. Some of these patches may be of critical importance!
	Please read the file .../NetBSD-1.4.3/source/patches/README to learn
	about what patches are available.

[all miniroot-shell-installing platforms, e.g., port-amiga, port-sparc]

	When configuring the network during the installation, you will be
	asked for media options for your network interface. The default
	value offered can be the name of the interface, which does not work
	if chosen either explicitly or by hitting the return key.

	You can work around this by typing 

	none

	literally if you don't need any media options, or, of course,
	by entering the mediaopt parameter you need.

[all platforms that use MBR partitioning with the sysinst installation program]

	There is a bug in the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning part
	of "sysinst", the install software for several platforms. It will
	miscalculate partition sizes if you select "cylinders" as your
	partitioning unit.

	Workaround: only user either "sectors" or "Megabytes" as units
	for MBR partitioning.

[port-mac68k]
	The experimental sysinstall kernels in mac68k/install/instkernel
	are known to be buggy. Especially, if you try to use the menu
	to edit the partition table on a disk with HFS partitions, and
	then do a clean install, it's likely to newfs (and destroy) the
	wrong partition! Note that the "supported" installation procedure,
	as described in the INSTALL.* documents, doesn't use these kernels.

[port-pmax]
	For machines which can only install via a network boot and have
	buggy PROMs that don't allow booting normal size kernels, there
	is an experimental network loader that contains a compressed
	kernel available in installation/misc/smallnet.ecoff.gz.  Use
	this kernel instead of nfsnetbsd.ecoff.gz.  Please report any
	successes or failures to the port-pmax@netbsd.org mailling list.