From owner-freebsd-install Mon Dec 13 2:25: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from maat.irisa.fr (maat.irisa.fr [131.254.13.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0142F14F40 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Miled.Tezeghdanti@irisa.fr) Received: from irisa.fr (oxygene.irisa.fr [131.254.13.73]) by maat.irisa.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19547 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:24:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:26:22 +0100 From: Miled Tezeghdanti Organization: INRIA - RENNES X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems to create boot & root floppies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have problems to create boot and root floppies using windows. When I use the fdimage utility I obtain the following message : command : fdimage kern.flp a: result : kern.flp - File is too big It's the same case for mfsroot.flp. I had used rawrite to produce the 2 floppies, but when I boot with the one having the kern, the computer will be blocked and it doesn't ask me for the other floppy. I use 1.44M Floppy. Thank you for helping me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-install Mon Dec 13 4:56:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873F414FA5 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 04:56:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thrumbar@Worldnet.att.net) Received: from 237.neworleans-15-20rs16rt.la.dial-access.att.net ([12.73.251.237]) by mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id <19991213125650.OEYY22589@237.neworleans-15-20rs16rt.la.dial-access.att.net>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:56:50 +0000 From: Thrumbar Pathfinder To: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Miled Tezeghdanti Subject: Re: Problems to create boot & root floppies Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:53:44 -0600 Organization: OmniCorp Interstellar Message-ID: <25q95s0s4jcbj5i5qjbfq2amamsg1trdqk@4ax.com> References: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> In-Reply-To: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:26:22 +0100, you wrote: You have to do the images in dos (not windows or windows dos box).. This is because in dos a 1.44 meg floppy reader as 1.44 megs in size, but in Windows it reads as a 1.39 megs in size..... You can check this out by compairing the size in Windows and DOS yourself.. In the recent releases of FreeBSD the images are created with fdimage instead of rawrite. This is the instruction from my Distributation disk... =46or a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images (for 1.44MB floppies). Get two blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy kern.flp onto one and mfsroot.flp onto the other. These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as regular files, you need to "image" copy them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools/ directory on your CDROM or =46reeBSD FTP mirror) or the `dd' command in UNIX. =46or example: To create the kern floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like this: C> fdimage kern.flp a: Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and kern.flp into a directory somewhere. You would do the same for mfsroot.flp, of course. If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find that: dd if=3Dfloppies/kern.flp of=3D/dev/rfd0 or dd if=3Dfloppies/kern.flp of=3D/dev/floppy work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment (different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the floppy drive - neat, huh? :-). If I am correct the fdimage is an inproved way to make the boot floppy instead of using rawrite.... This is the way FreeBSD uses so the use of rawrite is no longer applicable... Thrumbar@Worldnet.att.net >Hello, > >I have problems to create boot and root floppies using windows. >When I use the fdimage utility I obtain the following message : >command : fdimage kern.flp a: >result : kern.flp - File is too big >It's the same case for mfsroot.flp. >I had used rawrite to produce the 2 floppies, but when I boot with the >one having the kern, the computer will be blocked and it doesn't ask me >for the other floppy. > >I use 1.44M Floppy. > >Thank you for helping me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-install Mon Dec 13 7:30:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361AC1510E for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991213153002.VLWB17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:30:02 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:28:13 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <12436.991213@Home.Com> To: Miled Tezeghdanti Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems to create boot & root floppies In-reply-To: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> References: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Monday, December 13, 1999 Did you format these floppies first and verify they don't contain any bad sectors? Also how did you download the *.flp images? If you used Netscape that could also be your problem as I seem to recall hearing about Netscape not handling binary downloads correctly in some cases... -- Ben. Monday, December 13, 1999, 5:26:22 AM, you wrote: MT> Hello, MT> I have problems to create boot and root floppies using windows. MT> When I use the fdimage utility I obtain the following message : MT> command : fdimage kern.flp a: MT> result : kern.flp - File is too big MT> It's the same case for mfsroot.flp. MT> I had used rawrite to produce the 2 floppies, but when I boot with the MT> one having the kern, the computer will be blocked and it doesn't ask me MT> for the other floppy. MT> I use 1.44M Floppy. MT> Thank you for helping me. MT> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org MT> with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message -- Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-install Tue Dec 14 5: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from maat.irisa.fr (maat.irisa.fr [131.254.13.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D96714F9C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Miled.Tezeghdanti@irisa.fr) Received: from irisa.fr (oxygene.irisa.fr [131.254.13.73]) by maat.irisa.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02552; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:57:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38563F0D.7094705A@irisa.fr> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:58:53 +0100 From: Miled Tezeghdanti Organization: INRIA - RENNES X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben WIlliams Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems to create boot & root floppies References: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> <12436.991213@Home.Com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, The problem was actually with netscape which downloads *.flp in ascii format and not in a binary format. Thank you all for help. Ben WIlliams wrote: > Monday, December 13, 1999 > Did you format these floppies first and verify they don't contain > any bad sectors? Also how did you download the *.flp images? If you > used Netscape that could also be your problem as I seem to recall > hearing about Netscape not handling binary downloads correctly in some > cases... > > -- > Ben. > Monday, December 13, 1999, 5:26:22 AM, you wrote: > > MT> Hello, > > MT> I have problems to create boot and root floppies using windows. > MT> When I use the fdimage utility I obtain the following message : > MT> command : fdimage kern.flp a: > MT> result : kern.flp - File is too big > MT> It's the same case for mfsroot.flp. > MT> I had used rawrite to produce the 2 floppies, but when I boot with the > MT> one having the kern, the computer will be blocked and it doesn't ask me > MT> for the other floppy. > > MT> I use 1.44M Floppy. > > MT> Thank you for helping me. > > MT> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > MT> with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message > > -- > Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-install Mon Dec 20 20:27: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8516B14E95; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id WAA34841; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:27:04 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199912210427.WAA34841@aurora.sol.net> Subject: 3.4R sysinstall blows up To: install@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:27:03 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So I go to install 3.4R on a box. sysinstall blows spectacularly as I go to select the distributions. Joe's abbreviated method for 3.4R install. Box in question is a Pentium 200 with 3 ST31055N drives on an ASUS NCR controller, 32MB RAM, dual SMC Ethernet controller, VGA video (serial session log enclosed though, same error). Custom install: Partition disk 1. Disk is previously unlabeled, having been formatted. Select "All" to use entire disk. Select Standard MBR. Quit out, leaving additional drives unselected. Label disk 1. 160M / 180M swap 200M /usr 120M /usr/local 140M /var remainder /export/home/u0 Exit. Select distributions. Select custom (8?). Pouf. "A signal 11 was caught - I'm saving what I can and shutting If you can reproduce the problem, please turn Debug on in the Options menu for the extra information it provides in debugging problems like this." (tried that and didn't seem to get anything BTW) I'd suspect hw except that the box was previously running fine, and it keeps hitting this in the exact same spot. Tried different floppies, etc. too. Is this just me, or is it an actual bug? ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-install Tue Dec 21 15:59:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9014E1557B; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13666; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:57:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:57:51 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Joe Greco Cc: install@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4R sysinstall blows up In-Reply-To: <199912210427.WAA34841@aurora.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Joe Greco wrote: > So I go to install 3.4R on a box. sysinstall blows spectacularly as I go > to select the distributions. [...snip...] > Is this just me, or is it an actual bug? I'm guessing its a legitimate bug, since I just encountered this exact same problem when a friend was trying to install 3.4. I told him to install the 3.3-19991207-STABLE snapshot I have on my ftp server and it worked fine. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message