Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 14:58:40 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: argh^2 Message-ID: <XFMail.981107145840.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199811071732.JAA00660@ducky.net>
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Mike Haertel, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote: ... > Actually, in the credit-where-it's-due dept, the release I > downloaded yesterday afternoon came from ftp.freebsd.org: > /pub/FreeBSD/alpha/3.0-19981105-SNAP. > > And it was built by Jordan, witness the kernel startup banner: > > >FreeBSD 3.0-19981105-SNAP #1: Fri Nov 6 16:51:51 GMT 1998 > > jkh@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS Thanx Jordan. :-) > A couple of observations: > > - The bit about not making the root disk bootable still isn't fixed yet. > I had to boot off the floppy and fix it manually. > > - To my surprise, the sysinstall partitioning phase did not find the > old NetBSD partitions on the disk. The reason I find this surprising > is that when I got the mfsroot floppy wrong, the FreeBSD kernel > happily found and booted using the NetBSD partitions. So apparently > sysinstall and the kernel don't quite look in the same places for > the disk label. I also noticed that fdisk partitioning is just for decoration; Gets totally ignored. I also could not see the second disk in the disklabel screen, last I checked. > - The sysinstall screen still gets the colors wrong. I sort of like them this way. Blue for IBM/M$, and Red for Digital. > Other than these observations, it works great and felt *exactly* like > an x86 install. Yup. Looks real good. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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