From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 29 21: 0:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF86937BD93 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz) Received: from lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.12]) by xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15920; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:00:30 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA09055; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:00:21 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:00:16 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jerry@dunham.org Cc: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: 4.0-20000222-CURRENT installation report Message-ID: <20000301180016.C886@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SCMS, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... drained by Solaris 7 SPARC Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, my report on installing -current on a dual P-III 733MHz HP Kayak XU800, 1GB RAM, 2 Adaptecs, 7 disks, 300GB of disk space. This has been the most difficult FreeBSD install for me ever since. First, I tried to avoid fetching a -release tree across the network, to save $$$ on IP costs (we pay by the MB). I learned that I need a current system to compile -current, so that didn't work out for me. I pulled over 20000222 and did an NFS install. Sorry for using explicit words here, but sysinstall is causing problems only. I can't remember how often I simply had to hit the reset button. The reason is that if you mistype anything during install, sysinstall has problems recovering. It seems a matter of poor testing to me, if you always type the correct thing it will work. For everyone but -hackers, this won't be the case and thus FreeBSD will receive very poor marks on evaluations, once out. I have lost track about which menus this applies to, but it included network configuration and choosing disk drives for install (the latter will never appear again when trying to re-do). sysinstall also overwrites /etc/make.conf with the default for unknown reasons when called from an installed system. Apart from that the most noticable thing is that the AIC-7892 Ultra160 will not work with a 160 and a 80 MB disk drive attached. I'm not sure about the reasons. I have run various combinations. An 80MB drive and a 160MB drive on a 80MB (Ultra2) Adaptec will work. The Ultra160 drive alone on a 160MB bus will work. It is the particular combination of the 2 which causes problems. I have checked on firmware/BIOS, but I'm running the most recent release. If anyone needs more details, we can discuss offline. The kernel hangs with "SCSI timed out on SCB N while idle". X11R6 will not install as fetched with -current, libXThrStub.so.6 is missing. When compiling X11R6 from ports, everything works fine. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message