From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 11 05:36:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA28602 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:36:54 -0800 Received: from ashe.cs.tcd.ie (ashe.cs.tcd.ie [134.226.32.17]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA28596 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:36:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199501111336.FAA28596@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from liebfraumilch by ashe.cs.tcd.ie with SMTP (PP) id <17030-0@ashe.cs.tcd.ie>; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:36:02 +0000 X-Sender: detobin@ashe.cs.tcd.ie Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:36:02 +0000 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: donal.tobin@cs.tcd.ie (Donal Tobin) Subject: A question for you. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Jordan and Hackers people, I am trying to install 2.0R on a machine here, however the newfs fails on the disk. This is at the very begining of the install just after the fdisk has been done. Does newfs do a scsi read capasity, or do you know offhand. Can extra otions to newfs be set, or is there some way to drop into a shell. Ctrl-C and ESC-ESC both reboot the machine. Is there a floppy I can build which will give me a shell through which I can do the work manually. I now have a seperate temporary machine on which 2.0R is installed with the srcdist and I can build on that. Thanks for your time and help. I just adore the installation process. NB for a WD8013 the probe incorrectly detects when the IRQ is at 2 and falsely reports that it is at 5, I could have done without having to open up my machine to change jumpers, when I eventually figured it out :->. Donal. PS This is installing on a NCR Raid scsi ID 1, OS/2 boot Manager + Special code to boot from ID 1, other OS's are DOS and OSF/1. o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o | Donal.Tobin@tcd.ie When you get carried away by enthusiasm you | | +353-1-702-1797 may be lucky if you can hitch-hike it back | | Computer Architechture Group Department of Computer Science | | F34 O'Reilly Institute Trinity College Dublin Ireland | o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o=- -=o Click here :-)