From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 13:39: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from phy.ucsf.edu (phy.ucsf.edu [128.218.64.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F82737C2BA for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:39:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu) Received: from amadeus.ucsf.edu (dkleinh@amadeus.ucsf.edu [128.218.65.107]) by phy.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6LKd1k13224 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by amadeus.ucsf.edu (8.8.6) id NAA22336; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink X-Sender: dkleinh@amadeus.ucsf.edu To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > I've had no response from David about it, Jordan didn't add the xterm entry t > > o > > > the installer (as he said he would), and Mike hasn't looked at the 'going > > > > Well, the omission of an xterm entry was simply an oversight on my > > part and hardly a major show-stopper for the alpha, so I fail to see > > why you'd include this with the above list. > > Sorry- with vt100 or 'ansi' entries it's damned near impossible to be sure > whether or not you're actually seeing an artifact of wierd curses on serial > installs or not. I probably shouldn't have included it. > > > As to the "going nowhere > > without my init" problem, it's my understanding that nobody else can > > even *reproduce* it with the equipment available here or I'm sure > > you'd see a lot more furor over it. > > Nobody *tried* to reproduce it-that's what occurred. I offered to make > equipment available to make this process easier, but nobody got back to me on > this. It's happened several places, so I'm assuming that it isn't just a > oneshot problem. Seems like it would be an easy thing to try to reproduce: just put a couple of disks on the system and install Tru64/NetBSD/Linux/OpenVMS on one of them and then try to install FreeBSD on the other disk... > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message