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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:28:29 -0600
From:      "John Fein" <j.fein@uwaterloo.ca>
To:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 5.0-RC2 install story
Message-ID:  <000001c2ad4f$a80078a0$0200a8c0@yemanja>
In-Reply-To: <20021224085817.C94893-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>

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I had a similar issue when installing RC2. What does " Loading module
if_awi.ko failed. Baystack 660 and others" refers to? I haven't had much
luck with this and every install attempt fails with this message. Plus, I
haven't see any such problem with 4.6 or 4.7. 

Anybody has any idea?
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JF

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Gavin Atkinson
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:00 PM
To: current@freebsd.org
Subject: 5.0-RC2 install story


Hi all,

I've just tested an install of 5.0-RC2 using the boot floppies FTP install
method (from ftp3.uk.freebsd.org). The machine is a 1.8GHz P4 with an
Intel 850MV2 motherboard. Overall the installation was successful,
however:

First time I booted the install disks, the machine hung on a sysinstall
requester, "Loading module if_awi.ko failed. Baystack 660 and others". Not
even caps lock or scroll lock worked.

I rebooted, checked the bios was setup correctly, never changed anything,
and tried again. it worked.

The drive was originally formatted NTFS, i deleted the whole partition and
created a freebsd partition on the first half of the drive. I used the
Auto option for the slices, and then manually split /usr into /usr and
/usr/home.

I performed a custom install, installing everything except kerberos and
pre-4 compat. The install went well, however at the end of the install,
every option I selected on the menu gave "Couldn't stat dir /tmp. Bad file
descriptor". Rebooted to find the same problem. I had to unmount it, newfs
it, remount it and chmod it before it worked.

I tried installing Gnome2, but the install couldn't find libgtkhtml-2.0.3
on the ftp mirror I was using. I grabbed it off the primary successfully.
Similarly with the option to read online docs, lincs-0.98,1 could not be
found on ftp3.uk.freebsd.org but was on ftp.freebsd.org.

FreeBSD happily detected all my hardware, and seemed happy with
everything. Xfree86 auto-config detected everything and worked fine.

Worryingly, the game same-gnome died with a floating-point exception,
which I haven't seen since all the FP problems last time. I won't be able
to investigate this further until the new year.

Gavin


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