From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 18 11:48:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from histidine.utmb.edu (histidine.utmb.edu [129.109.59.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212B137B401 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by histidine.utmb.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8IIoWN16985; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:50:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:50:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200109181850.f8IIoWN16985@histidine.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lynx install problem with recent stable ISO 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin writes: >=20 > M. L. Dodson writes: > > Andrew Gallatin writes: > > >=20 > > > Sounds fine.. > > >=20 > > > Drew > > >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 >=20 > Well, that's sure good to hear! >=20 > 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=3D0) =20 >=20 > 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 J=F6rg = 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=3D4 dev=3D0,5,0 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 --=20 M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message