From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 19:19:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA06261 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA06256; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA01816; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:18:58 -0800 (PST) To: "Brian J. McGovern" cc: jkh@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssys.* corrupted in BETA? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:16:26 EST." <199701162016.PAA05710@spoon.beta.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:18:57 -0800 Message-ID: <1812.853471137@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk /sys/i386/i386/conf.c died when we changed the allocation scheme for major/minor numbers. Jordan > I was just recently trying to tinker will adding some device drivers to my Un ix > system, to play with them. Using the instructions from the handbook > (4.1.2 - Make room in conf.c), I noticed that I didn't have a conf.c > in the patch specified (/usr/src/sys/i386/i386). Thinking this weird, > and knowing I had been seriously tinkering with the system source anyways, > I went to reinstall from the 2.2-BETA CD I had burned from myself. I got all > the way though ssys.aq when it bombed, saying the compressed data was > invalid. > > So, thinking I had a bad copy, I downloaded ssys.* from ftp.freebsd.org, > in /pub/FreeBSD/2.2-BETA/src... > > The same problem occured. Is it possible that the system source got > corrupted? Or am I just being stupid? Kernel compiles work fine, > but the handbook just doesn't seem to jove, and it claims to have > last been updated 1/4/97. Any help getting a good ssys distribution would > be helpful. > -Brian