Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:01:54 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: cmetz@inner.net (Craig Metz) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random FreeBSD things Message-ID: <199602230901.KAA03015@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602221958.OAA00987@inner.net> from "Craig Metz" at Feb 22, 96 03:29:15 pm
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As Craig Metz wrote: > Ok, so I boot the 2.2 snapshot floppies. The menu program doesn't work, > period. It'll ask you lots of questions, it also won't actually suceed in > anything. Not much of a surprise. Not much of a surprise. You're simply too ignorant for it. As a logical consequence, it does ignore _you_, too. > So I go to the shell (I'm a crank; I WANT a > shell for an OS install). ls? No, you mean reboot! Turns out any program > execution from the shell leads to a soft reboot. Not cool. That's a bug in recent SNAPs. I've noticed it, too, on my SNAPs. Booting a 2.1R floppy, and using the 2.2 fixit floppy does work. After all, that's what SNAPs are for. Nobody would even have noticed the problem otherwise, since it is apparently very specific to the installation floppy kernel. > 1. Could someone please make an install floppy that works like the > one in NetBSD or BSD/OS? Unless you do it yourself, no. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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