From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 10 12:53:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20442 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:53:56 -0700 Received: from npr.legent.com (genesis.npr.legent.com [192.35.52.14]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20436 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:53:52 -0700 Received: from ra.i88.isc.com by npr.legent.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20112; Sat, 10 Jun 95 14:53:17 CDT Received: from trickster.i88 (trickster.i88.isc.com) by ra.i88.isc.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29115; Sat, 10 Jun 95 14:53:16 CDT Received: by trickster.i88 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA18470; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:53:10 -0500 From: wmv@npr.legent.com (Warren Vik) Message-Id: <199506101953.OAA18470@trickster.i88> Subject: 2.0.5-ALPHA Installation Troubles To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:53:09 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: wmv@npr.legent.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This release looks terrific. The network installation is particularly outstanding and was especially useful when the wangtek installation didn't come off well. I am having some trouble getting the release installed from a wantek tape drive, and I was wondering if sysinstall should be looking for "rwt0" instead of "wt0". The debugging output made no mention of the tape drive regardless of whether a tape was loaded. Like some other folks have commented, the fdisk editor seems a bit confusing. I haven't been able to sucessfully install a boot block on an Seagate ST-41200N with either the booteasy or standard boot manager. It seems like the partition active flag is automatically cleared because the disk has more than 1023 cylinders. Does one need to manually calculate a large enough number heads/tracks so the automatically calculated number of cylinders falls below 1023? When I entered the geometry off the spec sheet, the number of cylinders was recalculated to match the number of sectores reported by the disk. Sorry if this an FAQ. Any hints? Cheers, --Warren Warren Vik Legent Corporation Naperville, IL 60563 708 505-9555 x391 wmv@npr.legent.com