Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 00:06:31 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: adventures in alpha install Message-ID: <m0sI6xL-0006QUC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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Adventures in the latest (last time I looked :-) boot.flp on 3 June on a 1033mb drive that has OS/2 Boot Manager, 320mb dos, 128mb OS/2. This leaves ~50mb below 1024 cylinders. (of 2099 cyl on the disk) OS/2 boot manager requires that a partition be totally within the 1024 cyl limit to add it to the boot menu. No problem, I will just boot from a floppy anyway. When instructed to not diddle with the MBR, the install crashes with "Fatal Error ... Invalid Variable ... something ..." I can duplicate this if need be, and record it exactly ... just have to find a pencil my dogs have not chewed up. :) All setup variations which includes NOT updating the MBR results in said fatal error and a reboot. I want to continue to use OS/2 BM, so I tell it to write the MBR and proceed to install from a dos partition. All goes well until reboot time when I get an error message something to the effect of partition out of range... again, if they are that interesting, I can duplicate this and write down the exact message. Anyway, besides not booting anything at all now, I have to boot dos from a floppy to make OS/2 BM bootable again. Then I recall the slice scheme being discussed a while back and my wishfull thinking tells me to try creating two slices on the disk, one below 1024 cyl for / and another for the rest of the disk. Partition will gladly create another partition for me ... and Disk Label will gladly let me divide it up, but as you know and I learned, the second slice gets called /dev/X which is not kosher, cannot be newfs'd or mounted and the install ground to a halt. However, if I escape out of the error message, I am told that installation was successful. :) btw, freefall would NOT let me do a get somedir.tar. wcarchive would let me get one-dir.tar but all subsequent get dir.tar commands would fail... log out, log in and get another dir.tar worked, however. btw2, did dict change? Install failed to extract dict from a few days ago. If I then x'd out dict and tried to only install say, manpages, after dict failed, the procedure remembered that something had failed and would not attempt any further installs. Has anyone tested floppy installs? If not, I can give it a try. -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us
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