Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 15:02:29 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: gwk@cray.com Cc: amjudge@dsg.cs.tcd.ie, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install problem with 2.0.5-ALPHA (UPDATE floppy image) Message-ID: <5708.802044149@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jun 95 21:02:32 %2B0200." <9506011902.AA09513@racer.dkrz.de>
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> Same for me. And I can't get floppy installation to work. It seems > to try to mount the root.flp floppy, which I have rawritten. Who's > wrong, the machine or me? And I can't get NFS installation to work, Hmmm! Well, if it's trying to mount root.flp then it's definitely not you! :-) Let me look into this. I've just fixed the FTP and DOS installations (knock on wood) and will move to the floppy install next. Now I just need some blank floppies to test on.. :-) > something like permission problems. When the NFS filesystem is > mounted, I cannot even cd into the mountpoint directory, "permission > denied". And I can't get installation from a DOS partition to work, I think you're suffering from a slight change I made to the NFS install semantics. Rather than doing it as a base dir and a prefix, I attempt to mount the target directory directly, that is to say: ziggy:/foo/bar/blatt/FreeBSD Rather than: ziggy:/foo + prefix of /bar/blatt/FreeBSD I know that this makes it a pain for some people who don't have submounts enabled (-alldirs option in FreeBSD) in their exports, but it's comparatively easy to work around and it makes my life a lot easier to not have to keep the extra info around. The new install framework is considerably more generic in its handling of media, but there are certain limitations to it also. I may change this in the future if there is sufficient demand, but for now I recommend simply adding a new export entry for the base directory where you have FreeBSD or enabling subdir mounts. >Guess it's time to give up for today. My previous experience with the >installation menu of 2.0R and various snapshots was not this bad. I'm sorry it's making your life miserable. Please do bear in mind that this was a _total rewrite_ of the install code and as such is going to have some teething troubles. I'm working practically 24 hours a day on fixing it and have already made significant improvements. Please try to be patient! Jordan
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