From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 22 1:33:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B5737B71B; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA16627; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:33:15 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:33:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: wilko@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: U: Request for testers of "going nowhere without my init" In-Reply-To: <20000722101634.B26964@freebie.demon.nl> 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 Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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? No, not for me, David, or for you I believe. > > > + 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message