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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>
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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

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