From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 07:37:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27417 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27409 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:37:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id HAA15953; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981006073735.D16473@Alameda.net> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:37:35 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Doug White , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:45:54PM -0700 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:45:54PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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. I reported simular things already to Jordan with Beta 0927 and 0930. I also got the "can't rewrite disk label" message, when I do a newfs on my ccd file system on one of my machines. Still everything seems to work fine. > > 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. Noticed that 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! Yeah, applaus for Luigi. This little K6-233 performs very well as mp3 player (using Mxaudio) and as TV with bktr. > > 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 -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message