Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 14:59:45 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: root@debian.cps.cmich.edu, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Todays disk set problems Message-ID: <199506040529.OAA01443@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <15269.802223279@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 3, 95 04:47:59 pm
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(My observations are based on the 3/6/95 boot image. If a newer set exist, apply cubic salt structures as required.) Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > No, that's actually fine - it should look for the .tgz first then go > on to pick up the piece files only if it can't find a complete one > (you can speed things up a fair bit by caching local copies of the > pieces already concatenated together in one .tgz file). It actually barfs (stops with an 'open timed out' error) if it can't find the bin.tgz file, and if you have 'choose another server' set, it _won't_ accept 'other' (complains about 'other' not being a valid URL). Also, the netmask "bug" (really an inconsistency) in the network setup dialog hasn't been fixed (if it's possible) : you can cursor/tab out of all of the fields that aren't inside the smaller box and their contents stay set. However, you have to hit <enter> to set the values for the fields _inside_ the box. It's easier to demonstrate than to explain 8) Set the hostname, cursor out, it stays set. Go down to netmask, type something and cursor out, it's erased. Also, if you don't set a netmask, a default should be used, as otherwise the ifconfig for the port barfs and you can't do anything 8( > > Then is hangs right there not ever asking for an different site like I > > asked it to. > > Hmmm! This didn't happen to us.. :-( I'll try to reproduce this! No hangs here, but it would be nice to have a 'master quit' option for the entire install set (so if you've got the wrong URL, you don't have to cancel a dozen attempts - that's annoying) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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