Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810051730390.5265-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Hello all...
I had the opportunity to test out installing and fiddling with the latest
beta a bit today. I have a lonely P90 that I was debugging (turned out to
be a disk problem - heh :/) and wanted to slap FreeBSD on it, and now that
wcarchive is back .... :)
Things I ran into:
1. The disk in it originally had 2.2.1 in dedicated mode installed on it.
I went through sysinstall's 'Express' feature, removing the old
partition and putting a new one on and making a Greg Lehey
Monolithic(tm) layout. At the commit step, for some reason newfs wigged
out on it, reporting:
newfs: ioctl(WDINFO): cross-device link
newfs: /dev/rwd0s1a: can't rewrite disk label
Exiting back to the main menu and going through 'express' again worked
fine. Go figure.
2. When booting, the machine emits three beeps before displaying the
boot: prompt. I tried this on two Micron PhoenixBIOS 4.04 machines.
I didn't have my laptop's floppy drive or I'd try it too.
3. The new improved SB Vibra support is heads & shoulders better than
2.2.7 :-) It doesn't break up when playing MP3s using xaudio. The
SB32/VibraC in the aformentioned machine hums long nicely. I
need to test it with X11Amp tho. Thanks Luigi!
That's my notes so far ... looking good!
Doug White
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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