From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 16:48:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC49737B953 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.33] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ua100744 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:48:30 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00315; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:48:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Shaun (UNIX)" , John Reynolds Subject: Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:42:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031019481801.00247@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Shaun (UNIX) wrote: > Hello, > > You are using RC3 ? Hmm...I wonder why you are not getting the ATA prob > problems like alot of us are. What is your system config? > > Yes it is FAST! and I love it....I see that the 64MB memory problem has > been fix at the install level. 3.x only reads 64MB of RAM at the floppy > install. 4.0 reads all of my 128MB. > > Cheers > Shaun Odd, 3.x always read all of my 128MB. I didn't get any ata probe problems and didn't read the posts. I wonder about other nit-picky things, like why is sound.doc (to which I've seen numorous RTFM references) still written for configurations under FreeBSD 2.1 ? > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John Reynolds wrote: > > > > > OK, finally had a chance to frag the hard drive and install 4.0-RC3 from cdrom > > and see how it went. Here's my observations on the good: > > > > 1) On the same hardware as I tested 4.0-RC and 4.0-RC2 on, now I no longer get > > those "long ATA probes"! This is awesome! Whatever was done, is great, now > > the machine boots very speedily. > > > > 2) The "Standard Installation" is much better than "Novice". It was good to > > rename this. > > > > 3) I chose the "A" option for partition/label and good, reasonable defaults > > were given to me. > > > > 4) The "Standard Install" went flawlessly (despite my best attempts at pilot > > error :). > > > > Now observations on a few nit-picky things: > > > > 1) There is a typo (spelling error) in one of the dialogs I was presented. I > > was trying to force pilot error into the situation :) and got a dialog that > > contained the following line: > > > > "You can also chose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the > > installation menus to try and retry whichever operations failed." > > > > The word "chose" should be "choose." I'd supply a patch, but I only > > installed kernel source :( > > > > 2) Again, while trying to inject pilot error, I created a FreeBSD partition of > > only 10Mb and gave that as the only slice the Label editor could deal > > with. When I hit 'A' to have it auto-decide, it came back with a dialog > > box: > > > > "Unable to create root partition. Too big?" > > > > I assume by what I gave to it, that it means to say "dummy, you didn't give > > me a big enough slice with which to work, try again." If that is the case, > > perhaps a small re-write of the dialog message is in order to help explain > > what has gone on and a possible course of action to correct the > > problem--like "give me a larger slice to work with here". In all honesty, I > > *meant* to create a 10Gb partition and typed so fast that my brain didn't > > snap that "10M" != "10G" ... and thus I presented a wierd situation to the > > Label editor. > > > > The system is fast, GNOME+E. desktop is usable, kernel config went like a > > charm. Looks *real* good from where I'm sittin'. Good work to all! Let's ship > > this puppy. :) > > > > -Jr > > > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation > > jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running > > jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. > > http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message