From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 18:38:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA02979 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:38:26 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02973 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:38:24 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA14500; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:13:34 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507040143.LAA14500@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 950622-SNAP installation woes To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 11:13:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507032110.XAA19842@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jul 3, 95 11:10:16 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1505 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying: > Today I did my first 2.0.5 installation again in some weeks of 'abstinence' > and got some pitfall right away: > The installation script warned me that I had a read-only root device > and that it may not find some /dev entries later. Aigh! FAQ 8) Mark / and /usr in the partition editor as 'y' for newfsing. > and after saying I had no name server and gateway the script choked > when saying that mount on 100.0.0.119:/home/2.0.5-950622-SNAP /nfs > could not be found, where I don't know whether it was /nfs that could > not be created or wasn't there or if it was the host/path that could > not be found. Couldn't be found; readonly / > I'm trying now already for four ours to get a kernel on that damn box > but with these hyperintelligent scripts - your work in all honors, Jordan - > it's nearly impossible to do an enforced installation if something > strange occurs. It's not even possible to shell out at this point > and do the ftp or mount manually. Can't shell out coz there's no shell 8) > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[