Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:26:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: attempting to install 10/31 snapshot on a Noname Message-ID: <199811050726.XAA00484@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:02:09 PST." <199811050602.WAA20725@ducky.net>
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> So I downloaded the 10/29 snapshot, and made the necessary > boot floppies. After some difficulties with preparing > a floppy for mfsroot.gz (during which I discovered that > the FreeBSD kernel will happily boot using the old NetBSD > root file system, and run at least some NetBSD binaries--so > I know the kernel works well enough to load and run user > programs off the hard disk on this machine), I managed > to get it to load the mfsroot image and drop into the > FreeBSD install screen. Exceedingly cool! But is it > really supposed to be red? Anyway... No, it's not, and this is a symptom. > Problem: the install menu is completely non-responsive > to keyboard input at this point. Yes, we know about this. No, we don't know (yet) what's wrong, but current suspicion is that it's 64-bit uncleanliness in either ncurses or libdialog. The console driver is fine, and if you reboot a couple of times, you'll probably come up one time and work. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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