From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 21:04:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA11049 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:04:07 -0700 Received: from haven.ios.com (haven.ios.com [198.4.75.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA11042 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:04:05 -0700 Received: (from rashid@localhost) by haven.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA23437 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 00:06:58 -0400 From: "Rashid Karimov." Message-Id: <199506090406.AAA23437@haven.ios.com> Subject: 2.0.5 install - a suggestion To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 00:06:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1334 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there , I've just installed the 2.0.5A on new system ( Adaptec 2940 + 1 Gb + 9Gb HDDs ). It happened again (FTP install - grabbed the distrib. from freebsd.org an hour ago): -=- this time the kernel src were broken(?) - famous CRC error and incredibly slow recovery. I had to cancel the instalaltion of this package by ^C and download it by hand -=- can't boot the system from HD - "no operating system" again. So I have to use floppy to bootstrap the kernel again :(( What's the deal with that anyways ? HD geometry is incorrect ? How one can set it correctly ? Why the system can't guess it ? Can the guys from FreeBSD team produce special boot floppies ? With default of sd(0,a)/kernel ? :(( That's my second computer which I can boot only from floppy - not very convenient . Never saw this problem with kind old SNAPS . Is this the price we have to pay for the "slices" idea ? To keep people with Windoze/DOS happy ? I'll report the QUOTAs status a bit later - hope it works in 2.0.5 Otherwise , everything went just great ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-= PS - I wouldn't put the system on CD and/or sell it w/o that common problem with geometry being fixed !!! Or at least put the detailed description on how to set it up correctly ! Rashid