Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 10:54:30 -0700 From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Bennett) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problem with 2.0.5 alpha using NFS install Message-ID: <9506081754.AA04383@gallifrey>
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I am attempting to install 2.0.5 alpha of FreeBSD using installation over NFS. I'm having a repeatable problem with the install hanging, and no debug output which tells me why. I have sucessfully installed 2.0R from the Walnut Creek CD on the exact same PC with the same configuration about 2 weeks ago. Here's what I have done so far: - made a boot.flp using dd to the floppy drive on this very PC while still running 2.0R - booted from the boot floppy. - Choose Proceed - Choose Partition - select sd0 (my only disk) (A comment here - the red "s" on this menu wrongly led me to believe that typing "s" would select this disk. I had to reboot and reread the "how to use menus" to learn to use the space bar for selections here.) - Since I've been retrying this, my partition table is already set up. I have a 100 MB fat slice, and a 906MB freebsd partition. - Escape from partition, choose label. - set mount point for sd0s2a to "/", set mount point for sd0s2e to "/usr". Mount point for sd0s2b is already swap. (Another comment here. I noticed that if I did not toggle the newfs flag to read "Y", I got a warning message much later about a read-only root partition. I suggest that if a user exits from this label menu with root set to no-newfs, that the warning is printed here too. Otherwise you have no idea where you went wrong when you see the message later.) - Choose distributions, select X-developer, select what I want. - Select media menu. - select Install over NFS - enter the NFS spec of the server where I have FreeBSD copied to. In my case, it is: cronus:/s3/bsd/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA - Network interface type menu comes up. My network interface is "de0", which shows up on the menu, but it worries me that the menu says <unknown device type>. I choose it anyway. - The Network Configuration display comes up. I enter all the relevant information. For security reasons, I'm going to modify the relevant IP numbers, but put them in the same format: Host Name: baz.microunity.com Domain Name: microunity.com Gateway: 191.211.193.16 Name Server: 191.211.193.32 IP Address: 191.211.193.80 Netmask: 0xffffff00 Extra options to ifconfig: none Exit this menu with OK. - Choose "Install" from the main menu - Choose Booteasy boot manager - Confirm out of Last Chance Here the install appears to go normally, I see a newfs of rsd0s2e. A worrisome message appears on the alt-F2 screen: Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (3680) disagrees with disk label (2048) but the newfs seems to proceed. Eventually the Information Dialog hangs with this message: Loading root floppy from cronus:/s3/bsd/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA On the alt-f2 screen, I see these messages: DEBUG: Notify: Copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem ............................... 1969 blocks /mnt/etc /mnt/etc/prototcols /mnt/etc/services /mnt/etc/sysconfig 129 blocks DEBUG: Sticking a potentially helpful shell over on the 4th screen add net default: gateway 191.216.192.16 ......................................................................................... gunzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored ......... 1655 blocks DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file I go over to the 4th screen with alt-F4, and notice these things: mount returns this: mfs_root on / (local) /dev/sd0a on /mnt (local) /mnt/dev/sd0s2e on /mnt/usr (local) cronus:/s3/bsd/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA on /nfs If I cd to /nfs and echo *, I see what I expect - the list of directories from cronus - MIRROR.SITES, README, README.FIRST, etc. If I cat /etc/fstab, it is empty. ls -l tells me it is zero length, and its creation date is only a few minutes ago. Its permissions are 644. I realize this email is rather long, but my experience with installations in the past has been that more information is generally better. About my experience - I have only installed FreeBSD 2.0R once before on this same PC. However, I have done numerous installations of various versions of SunOS 3.2-5.3 when I worked there for 6 years. And I am a systems/kernel programmer by trade. I would appreciate any information you can provide about this install problem. At this point I feel stuck until the WC CD comes out with this version, since I know that install method works on this PC. I am willing to perform any simple experiments that you would like - the disk has been newfs'd now and is useless until I reinstall the old FreeBSD 2.0R on it. Thanks, -deborah bennett Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again" Ginger Rogers in "Swingtime" Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again" Ginger Rogers in "Swingtime"
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