Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:22:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation completeness?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961204161720.6661D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961203171730.3236C-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > During the install. The window says "Attempting to install all selected > distributions" And....? Take a look at the debug console (ALT-F2). Note anything that looks suspicious. > I copied kernel.GENERIC to kernel and it booted lemme look around for a sec > (I have done nothing to it...) Well, no, there's probably a filesystem but that's it. > well...nothing is in usr/local so it didn't complete the install before > dying. Jordan wrote back and thought he might have broke something > but I have heard nothing since. I don't know if he could duplicate it. > I used a FTP install from ftp5. You might try ftp'ing from ftp.freebsd.org instead. The mirrors take a while to echo out the files, and ftp5 may just be behind. > > This generally indicates faulty memory or processor cache, or can be > > related to a software problem. > > 2.2-1014SNAP worked for weeks just fine. No problems. Were you installing OVER 2.2-SNAP? What version were you installing? . Installing 2.1.x over 2.2 is not a good idea. . You should use the 'upgrade' option to upgrade, not just install over the original. > It worked so the install went far enough for booting. It is sitting on > FDISK row right now though. Don't trust it and myself to fix it. easier to > FDISK it and reinstall. At this stage, perhaps. I don't know how much damage there is to the filesystems. If there was something there, it probably isn't there anymore. If you do reinstall, use DOS FDISK and delete the FreeBSD slice and install from scratch. > It would be nice if there was an installation log which you could look > into and it would list all the steps it was going to take and the ones > it actually took. Or maybe this exists and I have not RTFM. The best is the ALT-F2 debug console. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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