From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 4 13:31:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA02256 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 13:31:15 -0700 Received: from demerzel.sol.net ([204.95.172.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA02246 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 13:31:06 -0700 Received: from solaria.mil.wi.us (solaria.mil.wi.us [192.1.1.1]) by demerzel.sol.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA15319 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 15:30:52 -0500 Received: from localhost by solaria.mil.wi.us (8.5/8.5) id PAA15757; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 15:31:09 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199506042031.PAA15757@solaria.mil.wi.us> Subject: 2.0.5-A: Very disheartening? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 15:31:07 CDT Reply-To: jgreco@mei.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1261 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh! I can't seem to make it through the install for the life of me. I see spontaneous reboots and lockups. It looks to be the same sickness I see on my diskless P90 box at work. System: wye.sol.net, 486DX4/100, 8MB RAM, 3c503 Ethernet, CGA monitor and keyboard (since it doesn't seem to have the serial bootblocks and stuff installed on boot.flp). Install: via NFS or FTP from hummin.sol.net (wye is not Internet-visible). It seems to have severe problems if I do not manage to get all the options JUST right on the first attempt. And that's hard, because it's only somewhat forgiving if you make a mistake, and it really still doesn't give you any clues as to what went wrong. The one time it really looked like it was gonna work, I got about 80% of the way through bin, and then it locked and the speaker started a continuous tone. This system has been running SNAP-04whatever95 and before that, 2.0R and 2.0-02whatever95. Works fine. This is most definitely NOT the fun project I had envisioned for this afternoon. :-( ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847