Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 20:07:08 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available Message-ID: <m0sIPhE-0006QWC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199506041212.FAA08708@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 4, 95 05:12:52 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > If you run into any serious walls with this installation then I > want to hear about it ASAP! The CD distribution is sitting > on the launch pad and this is one of the last few things > holding it up. This floppy set does not crash when I request no MBR writing. However, it has done something stranger still. Upon rebooting after the install, I do not get the OS/2 BM screen, I get a cleared screen and then "Strike a key to reboot". To recover I booted dos from a floppy and reset the active parameter for OS/2 BM. Rebooting gave me the BM screen again. Just to check things I then booted dos from the hard disk and from there, fdisk hangs waiting for drive D... there is no dos drive D, btw. There is a second drive in the system as that is what I installed FreeBSD on, but there is only one dos partition anywhere. I have no idea what this has done to dos... Booting Linux so that I can mail this off, I notice that 8 of 9 partitions on drive 0 now report having the boot flag set from Linux's fdisk... bizarre. Oh, yea, BSD did install and boot, btw. On the first attempt when I cleared all flags in the options menu the system froze solid requiring a hard reset. After that, no problem there. The dict set claimed to install okay but anything I tried to install after that claimed 80% residual from dict failing... but there were on errors reported on the F2 screen. I will fetch dict again check the sums. All attempts to install packages from the install menu complained that I had no CDROM installed. I do have a SB16/Panasonic 563 which is found on booting... but I was installing from a dos partition. After exiting from failed package installs, the screen layers became jumbled ... I do not know how else to explain it. The blue/black backgrounds started overlapping with each screen change it became more disjointed. And, on the main menu ... why Commit? There is already a "c" on the menu... how about "install"? BUT, it is improving mightily with each iteration... thanks! -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us
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