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From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Unsuccessfully to install 2.2-960323 SNAP
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}> I downloaded everything again this morning. Beware, I reinstalled 2.1.0
}> under exactly same situation, everything went smoothly.  So, please check
}> what causes this problem.
}
}It's hard for us to check something *we* cannot reproduce.  This is
}not to say we were ignoring your problem, but walking in the dark is
}not as much the art we know how to handle.
}
}-- 
}cheers, J"org

We have twenty Pentinum machines with 7-8 different motherboards.
They all work well with 2.1.0-RELEASE, but cannot be installed with
2.2-960323 SNAP. I do not think that is the problem with 3Com driver
or other O.S. problem since the 2.2-SNAP NFS runs OK after I installed it
via ftp. A few problems in header files have been sent to bugs@freebsd.org
yesterday.  Therefore, I guess the problem is in the installation code.

Again, I do not think this is a problem for a particular board. It is
a generic problem since I have many different machines that cannot install
2.2-SNAP via NFS, but they all worked via FTP.

So, here is what we can do to solve the problem.
I will try to use different server for installation. The current server
is Sparc-1000 + Solaris 2.4. If you can find a Sparc-1000 + Solaris 2.4,
it should be able to reproduce the problem.

If other servers also fail, and you could not find a Sparc-1000 to reproduce
the problem, I am willing to take time to debug the installation code,
but I need to know how to generate the installation code (one on the floppy).

The new server testing will be done in a hour, and I will send email out
by end of today.

	-Jin