From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 23 01:28:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22139 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22131 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA19292 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:28:12 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA07138; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:20:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10968; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:20:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA03015; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:01:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602230901.KAA03015@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Random FreeBSD things To: cmetz@inner.net (Craig Metz) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:01:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602221958.OAA00987@inner.net> from "Craig Metz" at Feb 22, 96 03:29:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Craig Metz wrote: > Ok, so I boot the 2.2 snapshot floppies. The menu program doesn't work, > period. It'll ask you lots of questions, it also won't actually suceed in > anything. Not much of a surprise. Not much of a surprise. You're simply too ignorant for it. As a logical consequence, it does ignore _you_, too. > So I go to the shell (I'm a crank; I WANT a > shell for an OS install). ls? No, you mean reboot! Turns out any program > execution from the shell leads to a soft reboot. Not cool. That's a bug in recent SNAPs. I've noticed it, too, on my SNAPs. Booting a 2.1R floppy, and using the 2.2 fixit floppy does work. After all, that's what SNAPs are for. Nobody would even have noticed the problem otherwise, since it is apparently very specific to the installation floppy kernel. > 1. Could someone please make an install floppy that works like the > one in NetBSD or BSD/OS? Unless you do it yourself, no. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)