Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA install report, minor problems. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970109020434.23116I-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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1) Configuring local time zone results in a "copied" message after
copying the file which seems a little redundant give that you just
selected what you wanted to do, it asked to confirm it, and then tells you
that it did it. Time consuming.
2) The box I was installing on had BSD/OS installed on it. For whatever
reason, Custom -> Options -> Labels would *not* result in an installable
disk. The newfs of the /usr partition would fail with invalid block
numbers and such.
In fact, it decided my 1 GB Conner disk was a 2 GB disk, and merrily
went through all the config stuff, up until the newfs, which failed trying
to write past the end of media.
I tried everything I could think of. fdisk shows totally bizarre
numbers for the partition table, and the only way I could get the damn
thing to install properly was to low-level format the disk from my Adaptec
controller.
(BTW, this was on a P100, 2 Conner 1GB disks, 2 conner 4GB disks).
After that, the install worked fine.
However, even now, When I run disklabel auto on the 4GB disks, it
fails with all kinds of errors about end-of-media stuff. Low level format
cleaned it right up, but it seems unnecessary.
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