From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 22 1:20:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AC437B882; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13FuVx-0007Ke-00; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:20:05 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA27161; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:16:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:16:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: wilko@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: U: Request for testers of "going nowhere without my init" Message-ID: <20000722101634.B26964@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <20000722004009.A22692@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Complete report: > > I installed on a 4100's 4th scsi disk by: > > + dd'ing boot.flp onto the third disk (from NetBSD running on the > first disk) I deduct booting the floppies directly would not work? > + installing to the 4th disk via ftp. I created one root partition and a swap > partition on that device. > > + installing thru ftp firewall to the specific URL > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha > > + By selecting something other than 'all' (I think I selected 'developer' for > the source sets). > > Things went well until halfway throught profiled libs, when I guess the ftp > session borked (no way to get information from a serial install) and I had to > restart it. Other than not being able to set nis client info (which is a > generic problem) I was left with a usable and bootable system. > > At least based on this, we can say that 4100s *do* actually install. I could list this as a workaround in RELNOTES.. what do people think? -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message