Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 10:22:09 -0700 (MST) From: Joshua Lackey <jlackey@math.arizona.edu> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5a Message-ID: <199505311722.KAA12865@ame2.math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <1625.801907679@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 31, 95 01:07:59 am
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Another few bugs. 0. It seems there are some inconcistencies in the menu program. (Which, by the way, I like very much.) Sometimes esc gets you out of the menu you are in, and sometimes it gives you a shell. Sometimes space bar gets you out of the menu you are in, etc. It would also be nice to have the program remember the options I selected, I mean if I go back into the custom system menu (where you decide what you want to include beyond just the binaries and the man pages) I have to re-select everything each time I go there. Well, you get my drift. These are not bugs really, you probably shouldn't worry about them until 2.1. 1. If I don't newfs my filesystems (at least /) I get a error that my root filesystem is not writable. 2. No matter what instalation option I choose, mounted filesystem, dos partition, floppy disk, etc., I don't get prompted to put in the root.flp disk. (It has prompted me before, but now it has totally stopped. I found that if I swap the boot and the root at just the right time I can get it past that problem.) 3. The msdos directory has uid 4022324436 and gid 153986. 4. When trying to install by floppies, it asks you to "put the media into floppy drive unit A and press return." When I do this, it dosen't even check drive A but it gives me, "Error mounting floppy rfd0 (/dev/rfd0) on /mnt." It goes through that twice, and then tells me installation was successful. :) I think this problem has something to do with the way you mount the filesystems. In the shell on screen 4, mount gives me: mfs_root on / (local) /dev/wd0a on /mnt (local) /mnt/dev/wd0s1 on /mnt/msdos (local) /mnt/dev/wd0s4e on /mnt/usr (local) /mnt/dev/wd1s1e on /mnt/usr/X386 (local) /mnt/dev/wd1s1f on /mnt/home (local) Perhaps if you mount the floppy on /mnt/mnt? Anyway, this is the farthest I could get this morning. Hope to hear some suggestions from you soon! (And I hope these bug reports help! I have been running FreeBSD ever since it came out -- heck, I was running 386bsd just after they fixed that little core dump all over the hardrive bug. In any case, keep up the great work! (Where the hell do you find the time to do this???)) Thanks, Josh. -- jlackey@math.arizona.edu
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