From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 31 09:43:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CD916A419 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FA213C4BB for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:43:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so188971pyb for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:42:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=EmtPQRA4bQ19B3jbnW5TkQL4A51AHQZJhwr+DWMjpBg=; b=E+D8Xbz3cBwuUyJX/F/XUL2CTQobQ6x4aZjYkXENGhrV8y2czn+83vrNBvA4SD7TledHV3uabkzEPOrHE8AyCDP99aLDcD5sNMTUb28KCrH+NgA6L8Rbtp8UYMdDudhqwTH6+N/82sGP53UMyMWgq6qV29bP0F6WKS94ZjzOvQo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z9gu4YGHzuBb5qhuMCFKFkoKo8MZRe9tGLjAa+9fvyi4W3hKOLSKE8zrg/Tz2NYol0LUQT2Delt5udIqvVGkSf59ur3Rb1Ty/LpOQc0qtLv9QmwTNnph8gDp0kYnTJJm8/JYRtrrcMC18ZhPkuMhXtBsJg3iqvdct4+/QCjPjok= Received: by 10.65.44.5 with SMTP id w5mr764149qbj.1193823775368; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.107.3 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:42:55 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "Thomas David Rivers" In-Reply-To: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:43:16 -0000 Also note that amd64 disk1 fails to boot on some SATA cd/dvd drives (gets upto the end of the device detection but then goes into a finite series of read_fail timeouts on the cd/dvd drive)... Details ICH9 with on board SATA/300 P35 Chipset OEM SATA DVD drive On 10/30/07, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Just wanted to report some of my results with installing > the BETA1.5 CDs.... with a CD-ONLY install. > > This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, and 300G SATA > drive and older ATAPI DVD drive (Intel DG33BU motherboard.) > > First; after you partition & label and choose your distributions; > it's time to remove the "BOOTONLY" CD and place DISC1 in the > drive. There's nothing that tells you this.. if you don't > do this, then the process merrily fails at trying to install > everything.. twice over. After that, you have an opportunity > to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive. I'd > suggest a little box saying "remove the BOOTONLY CD, insert DISC1 > and press OK" when it's time to start installing the distributions. > > Second - if you choose the X11 packages in the distributions; > they don't work. The install process complains that it > can't find packages/INDEX on either DISC1 or DISK2. I'm not > sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install. > > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >