From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 9 07:23:37 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA09555 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:23:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA09539 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA22005; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:23:33 -0800 (PST) To: Paul Frank Covello cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 com port problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:07:22 CDT." <199608190607.BAA00381@noid.enteract.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:23:33 -0800 Message-ID: <22000.850145013@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello there! Got a possible bug for you... [Just to show that I don't delete the bug reports I can't address right away, I just file them] > problem 1: the boot disk will only let me use com1: ... if I select com2 > it still uses com1! ... good thing I have an external modem.... watched the > TR light to determine this. OK, this one is still something of a mystery but I think I've cleaned up that code to the extent that if this was some artifact of a coding error, I've probably whacked it. If it's something else, I'm still mystified but would welcome a report either way so I know whether or not I've got to keep looking. Keep an eye out for the 2.2-BETA release, a boot floppy who's ppp *should* work. > problem 2: after the ppp connection, the system starts to format my hard > drive (after telling it to use the whole thing via the auto defaults for > all)... but since it's a 1 gig drive, my ppp connection times out before the > format finishes and the whole install goes boom cause it cannot find the > link!!!! ... please format the drive before having the modem call out... I couldn't quite do it that easily, but I did implement a work-around which should prevent that unless your ISP has a really short timeout set or it takes a *long* time to make a filesystem on your hard drive. :) > one more problem, after setting the above parameters, for some reason the > drive runs out of disk space??? I'm installing the full (700M) system, but > I have a 1G drive!??? I think it runs out of inodes but not sure... can you All I can imagine is that you've got a really small /usr and tried to install lots of things into it. Jordan