From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 6 11:12:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from paralleldata.com (smtp.paralleldata.com [38.153.145.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1B314C80 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wsb@paralleldata.com) Received: by paralleldata.com from localhost (router,SLMail V2.5); Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:17:42 -0600 Received: by paralleldata.com from paralleldata.com (209.186.235.66::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.5); Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:17:41 -0600 Message-ID: <3874E75B.CF25FCBD@paralleldata.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:04:59 -0600 From: "Wes Bauske" Organization: Parallel Data Systems Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/15611: EIDE Large Disk Support, Newfs problem, File systemcorruption,IBM-DPTA-353750 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I don't think a 4.0 kernel on to of 3.x works very well- probably does, > but why stretch it? I have no idea about the upgrade path- I just do a > forklift upgrade myself. > > Go via ftp to current.freebsd.org /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386 and > select anyone of a number of snapshots. Basically I just snarf the floppy > images and boot those and install across the wire- even with 144Kbit DSL > it's not too bad. > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Wes Bauske wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > So, do I need a different kernel to pick up this new ata1 > > > > driver?? Is this available in the 3.4 kernel config? > > > > > > This is a 4.0 thing, I believe. It's a driver that's in better shape > > > than wd. > > > > I've looked at the 4.0-CURRENT directory on ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD > > and it's not clear to me where to get the newest kernel > > from. Exactly how much do I have to upgrade to get the same > > kernel you're using? If its an FAQ, point me at it... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wes > > OK, I tried the latest two versions of boot floppies from current.FreeBSD.org and both fail to get to the point where I can do an install. Any preferences on which date snapshot for 4.0 I should try?? One got to the point where it put up the sysinstall menu but I couldn't use the keyboard to navigate the menus. The other wouldn't boot saying it couldn't load /kernel. Wes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message