From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 12:34:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12600 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hoflink.com (hoflink.com [199.173.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12499 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikeg@hoflink.com) Received: from hoflink.com (ppp49.hoflink.com [199.173.65.149]) by hoflink.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA20692; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:47:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <36191F1C.D5B64279@hoflink.com> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 15:33:48 -0400 From: Michael Graziano X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Oski CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installing 10/03 beta References: <3617E2CB.9C72B912@hoflink.com> <36182207.F57AC8D0@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Oski wrote: > Mike, > > The first error is the same I experienced with the 9/23 -9/27 beta's. When I > asked about it last week, Jordon responded that the install from DOS was not > yet supported on the boot floppies I used. I'm not sure if this was ever > enabled. I worked around it by moving the dist to another machine and doing > an FTP install from there. My solution with my last reinstall (this morning) was to use an old 2.2.7 boot disk. Perhaps this is causing the problem (though I don't know how), so I'll try FTPing it later today. > > The second problem sounds like the driver parameters may be getting set > differently between the two machines. I experienced a very similar problem a > few years back when the write precomp was set to 0 (per the label on the > disk) on the PC I installed in, and set to ??? (can't remember exactly) when > auto-detected in the destination PC. I could boot from a DOS floppy and see > the data, but couldn't boot or actually read the data IIRC. Just an idea... Something told me it wouldn't be that simple, but I tried anyway. No go. It almost seems like the machine just doesn't like me anymore, maybe I should just push it out the window and file a claim on that insurance policy... :) > > MO! > > Michael Graziano wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message