Date: Fri, 03 Mar 95 04:04:43 -500 From: David Toth <dave_toth@dgc.ceo.dg.com> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with 950210-SNAP Message-ID: <9503030903.AA00608@dg-webo.webo.dg.com>
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1. BIOS memory reduced by 1K to 639K causing warning message,
machine report 640K BIOS memory using the 2.0-RELEASE version
2. Both the 2.0-RELEASE and the 2.0-950210-SNAP version yield
the following problem:
Background: AcerPower 9000T 60MHz Pentium 32MB RAM
IDE 500M
Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI w/ 500M & CDROM
3COM EtherLink III 3C509-Combo card
Problem: When attempting to perform install using FTP,
system attempts to launch NcFTP to connect to
the distribution site and the debug screen (Alt-F2)
prints the following message:
"NcFTP:Could not get your passwd entry! (9):Bad File Descriptor"
The system then freezes until your return to the
Alt-F1 screen and press Ctrl-C at which point the
system halts. I sucessfully got around this problem
with 2.0-RELEASE by ftp'ing the BINDIST directory
down to my local DOS hard drive by hand and then
rebooting the system back into BSD and using the
DOS install choice instead of FTP.
If the FTP program is looking for /etc/passwd there
isn't one in the /etc directory... I checked.
NOTE: I let it trash all the filesystems when I
decided to see if the 950210-SNAP would help with
my network problems.
FYI: The 2.0-RELEASE version eventually got running
but would freeze on bootup when ipconfig'ing the
ethernet card. The kernel boot successfully ident'd
the card as being at Port 300, Int 10 ...
Thanks in advance,
DT
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