Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:58:09 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Flaky 3.1R Install - where is my floppy tape? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904122246160.1749-100000@barnowl.roost.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904121123480.281-100000@culverk.student.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > I'll cover the install (nightmare city) with another posting. > > But repeated attempts got a somewhat broken system running. > > I'm up now but keep finding little bits not set up right. > > (I think the CD might be weak.) > > > > Since being careful to do plenty of backing up, I wasn't > > worried. But now the ft0 (Colorado Jumbo) is not sensed by the > > probe. Is this gone? Or, needing a kernel rebuild? (I haven't > > been able to load the kernel sources yet.) > > > > I can rebuild most of the data but I've already spent a week > > band aid patching the system to work and _really_ don't > > want to do more. > > > The install isn't flaky, there are many changes between 3.0 and 3.1 > Oh yes it is... Or now I know what is flaky. I've been trying to get the kernel sources installed all evening. Complete failure. Just like the original install. When using the install features of /stand/sysinstall it fails... *silently*. That is, it goes very slowly then seems to end normally. However, only 4 subdirectories would be on the disk. I then used cp to copy the dists onto a file system and run the install.sh script from there. Worked. I thought it might have been the CD but I think it is the copy of sysinstall. This is *exactly* the kind of error I had trying to get the bin dists onto my system originally, and I note that someone else has had a similar problem. Anyone else? > > ft0 no longer exists in freebsd. There was a decision about 2 months ago > to get rid of it from the kernel. Ow! Sob... Sniff... Oh well, I'll live. Gives me the excuse I needed to go get a SCSI tape and move this one to the Windoze machine in the kitchen. ;-) Thanks for the reply! I'll get it sooner or later. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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