From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 09:17:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA00999 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00992 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA06292; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason Wells cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brokeness of floppy images In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971024043954.007cd400@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Jason Wells wrote: > I have had trouble with the brokeness of my boot.flp images for 2.2.2. This > trouble occurs on a downloaded image. It occurs on the boot.flp image from > my CDROM. It even occurs using the install.bat file on the CDROM. This > leads me to believe that this image was broke on the day it was born. (Yes, > I know... the other common denominator is my computer.) I know there is a > workaround. I have used it succesfully. > > My primary concern is that the very first contact many people will get with > FreeBSD is "panic double fault". Ah, the 48MB double fault. This seemed to only affect the 2.2.2-RELEASE floppy; any later SNAP floppies, and thus 2.2.5, will work properly. For the history here, the boot floppy will emit `panic: double fault' if you have 48mb of RAM installed in the machine. They need to grab a 2.2.5 floppy or yank a SIMM until you're finished installing. And I'd highly recommend installing 2.2.5 instead of 2.2.2; the 2.2.2 sysinstall had some nasty corruption bugs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major