Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:20:45 -0400 From: Temptation <temp@temptation.interlog.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experience with the latest 2.0.5-ALPHA boot/install Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9506031349.A17630-0100000@temptation.interlog.com> In-Reply-To: <199506031458.AA21539@physics.su.oz.au>
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On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, David Dawes wrote: > This is with the boot image dated 3 June 12:06 GMT. > > Problems/observations: > > 3. The ftp fails with "/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum errors". > This happened with bin at about bin.ac, and manpages at about > manpages.af. I checked the files on the ftp server > (cat bin.?? | gunzip | tar vt), and they are not corrupted. > At that point, I gave up on ftp, and used NFS instead (which worked > better). It wouldn't be failing to set binary mode when doing the ftp > would it? Only have this problem with last file in bin, and someone noted that it's looking for 59 instead of the 60 (easy for jordan to fix ) > > 4. With the NFS install, it extracted bin, manpages, dict, compat1x, > compat20, then said "Couldn't extract all of the dists. Residue: 80". > There was nothing on the debug screen to indicate what the problem was. > In addition to those dists, I'd asked for the "info" dist (I did a > custom selection). I went back to the Distributions/Custom menu, > and noticed that "Info" was still marked. Trying again failed in the > same way. Hmm, same problem I have, also Xfree if you marked that as well, but Jordan also knows about that too. > > 7. When rebooting it complained about not being able to unmount /nfs > because it was busy. Yep same thing. > 8. The "configure additional interfaces" lets you configure the same your right, I did to it twice, and what it ended up doing was adding everything twice to sysconfig. > 9. I specified that a DOS partition should be mounted on /dos, but > the mount point wasn't created -- this meant that the first boot > failed to go multi-user. this one has been fix for me. > > 10. Entries for the configured hostname(s) didn't get added to /etc/hosts, > so there were some complaints at boot from route and sendmail. when you do a dos part. You then have to go Config and setup you network card, when doing NFS or FTP it sets it up for you. I forgot about that the first time I tried the Dos part, nothing reminds you about setting it up network access, This ain't DOS ;) > > > Other than that, it all went smoothly :-). > > David >
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