From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 9 02:08:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA20623 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA20608 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA09275 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA install report, minor problems. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.