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Subject: Re: freebsd 6.0 beta1/ppc on emac 1250mhz: install atempt report
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Hi Gil,

> *the installer copyed the files from the cd in a speed of aprrox 120kps 
> with some halts every few minutes (this was done on an apple superdrive 
> X4 wich a pioneer dvd-r/cdrw)

  Does the speed ever get higher than this ? There are some parts of the 
installation where large amounts of directories with small files are 
being copied, so the throughput can be quite poor. However, when 
untarring the base distributions, it shouldn't be too bad: probably in 
the region of 800KBps.

> *the installer treted the sun gem (GMAC) ethernet controller as an 
> unidetifaid controller and failed to set up networking

  Known problem, will be fixed in the next 6.0-beta.

> *when i booted the installed sysem the system failed to find the system 
> logger and paniced (couldt find a repport of this anywhare)

  Did the system end up at the 'mountroot>' prompt on first boot ? If 
you hit return there it will panic. You have to manually enter the root 
partition e.g. "ufs:/dev/ad0s7".

  If this is a different panic, would you be able to get a backtrace by 
typing 'trace' at the ddb prompt ?

later,

Peter.