From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 3 08:13:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA15144 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:13:10 -0800 Received: from ddg.com (EUNUCH.DDG.COM [199.183.109.237]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA15134 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:13:08 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.232] by ddg.com with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b8); Fri, 3 Feb 1995 10:12:57 -0600 X-Sender: awd@eunuch.ddg.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: awd@ddg.com (Andrew W. Donoho) Subject: Installing the new SNAP release from Boot Floppies Cc: awd@ddg.com Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 10:12:57 -0600 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Folks, Now that we all have determined that a 3c509 card must have the "link2" option to work, I have run into another problem. Because the 2.0 release and the previous SNAP were so flaky on my hardware, I chose to wait until the next SNAP before trying again. So I tried to do a from scratch install of the new SNAP. Here is what I've gone through. 1. Download the two floppy images: boot.flp and cpio.flp. 2. Format new floppies labeled boot and cpio. 3. Use rawrite to write the images. 4. Boot off of the boot floppy. 5. Watch machine hang. No screen messages, no nuttin'. Assume the downloaded images are bad. Repeat the same process as above including step 5. Try again with this modified process. Modify step 1. 1a. Download the gzip images. Note: it would be better for DOS if these were named boot.gz and cpio.gz rather than boot.flp.gz and cpio.flp.gz. 1b. Use gunzip.exe to test the images using the "-t" option. 1c. Use gunzip.exe to unzip the images into boot.g and cpio.g. Note the odd choice of extension. This is gunzip's default behavior. Repeat steps 2 through 5. Well, maybe my floppies are bad. 1. Do a makeflp from the 2.0 release CD. 2. Watch the machine boot just fine from these images using the same media as above. I'm so confused... ;-) Andrew Donoho awd@ddg.com awd@gslis.utexas.edu