From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 18:02:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20127 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:02:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20114 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA01231 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:57:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:57:19 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: boot.flp versions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From 19990112? I had no such problems on three different systems. (System #3 had a lot of other unrelated problems, like a loose ethernet cable and mislabelled jumpers on drives, but none of them were 19990112-related.) :) On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On 21-Jan-99 Richard J. Dawes wrote: : > The "boot.flp" in 3.0.0-19990112-SNAP/floppies is 2880K, which of course : > won't work. [I think this was acknowledged earlier by JKH, but has gone : > unfixed.] I'm wondering if an earlier boot.flp, say from the 1/6/99 : > SNAP, will work just the same? Thanks. : The boot.flp is broken.. : Try the 2 disk install (ie kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) : : They boot, but when I got some sucker^h^h^h^h friend to test it, he had no end of trouble : installing. Things like sysinstall trying to run the holographic shell twice, : mounting things twice and sig-11'ing.. : : I recommended a source install after that :) - Matt Behrens Network Administrator, zigg.com Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message