From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 4 21:55:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA25409 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:55:34 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA25402 ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:55:32 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Steven G. Kargl" cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD), jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest 2.0.5-ALPHA floppies (6/4/95 noonish?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 01:39:17 PDT." <199506050839.BAA02115@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 21:55:32 -0700 Message-ID: <25400.802328132@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > (1) Cosmetic: during extract the status bar extends past the > its bounding box (at 100% extracted). That's the cursor.. :-( We're punting on it for now. > (2) Serious: The mount point /dos was include in /etc/fstab for > my ms-dos partition, but the directory /dos was not created. > First boot from sd0 drops into single-user mode because of this > problem. Should be fixed - try the latest floppies! > (3) FTP install of srelease sources aborts because of a problem > with srelease.ab. This is probably due to the constant state > of change with ALPHA and sysinstall. I'll look into it! > (4) Selection of installing the binary distribution and source WITHOUT > games. The game sources were retrieved and extracted (no binaries > thankfully). Can't parse this! :( > (5) disklabel.hlp is definitely needed. It's there now. > (6) Kernel hangs during reboot from hardware because of the 3c509 and > conflicts with other devices. I got to the message "Changing root > to sd0" meesage then a hang. Fix by booting -c and disabling > everything at 0x300. This should be added to the hardware.hlp > file. Text? :-) Jordan