From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 17:46:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18890 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18804 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04580 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message