Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:50:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@scms.utmb.EDU> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lynx install problem with recent stable ISO Message-ID: <200109181850.f8IIoWN16985@histidine.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <15271.35260.550875.409582@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <200109181649.f8IGnIo16557@histidine.utmb.edu> <15271.32966.313753.432813@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200109181725.f8IHPBS16803@histidine.utmb.edu> <15271.34309.624463.641825@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200109181748.f8IHmo716883@histidine.utmb.edu> <15271.35260.550875.409582@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin writes:
>
> M. L. Dodson writes:
> > Andrew Gallatin writes:
> > >
> > > Sounds fine..
> > >
> > > Drew
> > >
> >
> > Of course, only 4.4RC2 was available when I actually went looking
> > for stuff, but it booted fine on the 1.44 floppies. I left it at
> > the main install menu to come back upstairs and report success.
> >
>
> Well, that's sure good to hear!
>
> How did you burn the CD? I'm thinking that the CD problem might
> have something to do with an incorrect burn, or an otherwise
> corrupt CD. The boot loader doesn't seem to have been loaded
> properly.. (PC=0)
>
> Drew
Well, it is installed, and except for the clock being fubar (it
was running NT in its previous life), appears just fine.
I used cdrecord:
[serine.utmb.edu:root:89] % cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.4) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W8220T' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
0,8,0 8) 'IBM ' 'DNES-309170W ' 'SA30' Disk
0,9,0 9) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS IV 9 WLS ' '0B0B' Disk
and
cdrecord -eject speed=4 dev=0,5,0 disc1.iso
I mounted the cd afterwards and looked at it (on the Intel box I
used to burn it). It looked fine there, although that only looks
at the cd9660 part, and not the boot image, I would guess. (But,
then, I admit to believing that bootable cds are somehow involved
with black magic.)
Does anyone have a suggestion on a -current date that is
reasonably safe? I'm going to be very amenable to testing out
things, but at first I need a somewhat stable environment to
compile up some applications.
Thanks for the help, Drew!
Bud
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