From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 19 01:00:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA25597 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from noid.enteract.com (pfc@noid.enteract.com [206.54.253.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25592 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pfc@localhost) by noid.enteract.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA00381 for bugs@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:07:22 -0500 From: Paul Frank Covello Message-Id: <199608190607.BAA00381@noid.enteract.com> Subject: 2.1.5 com port problem To: bugs@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:07:22 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello there! Got a possible bug for you... When I boot the 2.1.5 boot disk and get the system ready for an install via a modem/ppp link I run into two problems.... problem 1: the boot disk will only let me use com1: ... if I select com2 it still uses com1! ... good thing I have an external modem.... watched the TR light to determine this. problem 2: after the ppp connection, the system starts to format my hard drive (after telling it to use the whole thing via the auto defaults for all)... but since it's a 1 gig drive, my ppp connection times out before the format finishes and the whole install goes boom cause it cannot find the link!!!! ... please format the drive before having the modem call out... one more problem, after setting the above parameters, for some reason the drive runs out of disk space??? I'm installing the full (700M) system, but I have a 1G drive!??? I think it runs out of inodes but not sure... can you fix the auto command to adjust for this? Thanks! Paul Frank Covello pfc@enteract.com