Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:15:33 +0200 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se> To: FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Report from testrun of 4.3 RC1 (first try) Message-ID: <3AC389D5.87284DA3@ludd.luth.se>
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Aloha! (I want to describe the steps taken, so this might seem overly verbose - In that case ignore the message, things that are noteworty/I find differ from 4.2 Release are marked with *** ). I decided to try and work through a complete system installation of the 4.3 RC1 including a kernel build based on the 4.3 RC1 ISO. I'm currently building a firewall on a spare machines, and decided to use that system as the guinea pig (hereafter called Piglet) and then note what happens. Here's the first report: (1) Downloaded 4.3 RC1 ISO image and burned a cd. The cd mounted nicely in Windows. (2) Used the rawrite.exe tool to create kernel and mfsroot flopplies. No problems there. (3) Inserted the kernel.flp and cd into Piglet [1] and startet booting from the disks. (4) Reached the full screen visual configuration. Removed all ISA ethernets, SCSI and PC-card devices. (5) Standard setup selected. (6) *** I wanted to use the whole HD for the system so I selected (A). The change here from 4.2 is that the "Dangerously dedicated" option is now gone. Good. *** (7) Created 64 MB swap and 64 MB root - the rest of the disk for /usr [2]. No problem (8) Selected Developer and no ports. Bo behavior changes compared to 4.2. (9) System install worked as expected. (10) Set up network, console and clock worked. (11) *** I selected not to set up a mouse, but ended up in the mouse setup menue! *** Cancel got me out of there. (12) *** When I wanted to browse the packages the I got a sig 11 (!) [3]. Here I found the first bug: The dialog that pops up states "A signal 11 was caught - I'm saving what I can and shutting". The sentence should probably end with something like "shutting down.", right? (13) The system reboots and I end up at the login prompt without previously have given the opportunity to change the root password. (!) [3] (14) Rebooted using the kern and mfsroot disks, skipped config and tried to continue with then install. (15) *** Tried to set the root password, but the screen just blinks and I'm back into sysinstall. No error messages whatsoever. *** (16) Packages again and sig 11 again... That is how far I got with the testrun so far. [1] Piglet configuration: Pentium 66 MHz (Overdrive!) 16 MB EDO-RAM 1.086 GB Quantum HD Pioneer 40x CD/DVD player 2 * Realtek (rl) PCI Ethernet cards. [2] I place /var and /tmp under /usr with symlinks as suggested by The Complete FreeBSD. [3] What is the default root password? Documented where? -- Cheers! Joachim - Alltid i harmonisk svängning --- FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight --- Joachim Strömbergson ASIC SoC designer, nice to CUTE animals Phone: +46(0)31 - 27 98 47 Web: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman --------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se --------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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