Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:45:42 +0200 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodme@bezeqint.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Binary Install of 4.0 Message-ID: <38DCDF26.6B175A43@bezeqint.net>
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I'm getting desperate here: 1. Had 3.4 working fine. Tried upgrading from source and failed twice (the new 4.0 kernel even destroyed my filesystem once...). 2. Decided to do a fresh install. Can't do FTP install as my Internet connection is based on ISDN (which is not supported by the boot floppies... too bad - 3.4 supports my ISDN card just fine.) 3. Downloaded 4.0-RELEASE/bin directory and tried installing from the DOS partition (it is on wd2 while I'm installing on wd0). The installation failed complaining that it cannot create a filesystem on wd0 (Note that this is 4.0 #2 -- downloaded this morning). 4. Strange. It worked perfectly for 3.x... Grabbed my old FreeBSD-3.3 cd and performed a *minimal* freebsd 3.3 install. Then ran '/stand/sysinstall' and selected upgrade - again from the dos partition. This time everything worked fine... until about block 170/220 (or so.. don't remember the exact numbers) when I got the message 'sh: core dumped'. Needless to say.. it didn't work. Any ideas...? -- Nimrod. p.s. I'm running on Abit's BP6. I don't use the UDMA66 controller. wd0 is a seagate 4GB drive, wd2 is a maxtor 8GB drive. Everything works ok with Win98 and Linux2.2. FreeBSD 3.4 used to generate those nasty wdtimeout() messages now and then.. but otherwise everything worked ok. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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