Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 02:48:01 +0200 (EET) From: Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: install trouble on 1104 SNAP Message-ID: <199511120048.CAA07640@lk-hp-20.hut.fi>
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Basically, I was unable to install the 2.1.0-951104-SNAP with the boot disk installer. Below is a short failure report, but I can provide more detailed description of the setup, and retry the troublesome operations, if anybody wants to hear more of it. Trouble hardware was 486DX266MHz, 32M ram, Adaptec 1542B, Quantum Grand Prix XP34301 4G drive. I went with the "expert" installation menu, and used the partition, and disklabel editors. * fdisk and geometry "Fdisk" editor reported all sorts of drive geometries varying from 4076 cylinders to 200000 cylinders. The values that it did not complain to be incompatible with BIOS were 14703/13/44 (cyl/heads/sectors). The drives "natural" geometry is 4076 cyls, 20 heads, and average 103 sectors per track. With the fdisk editor, I tried one slice, two slice and totally dedicated disk partitions (with different geometries) and run into trouble with the disk label editor. * label editor: panics and failures After determining the partition sizes (with, for example the auto calculation option) and trying to write out the changes, what happens is: Sometimes I get panic, in "alloc bounce buffer" routine or similar. Other times the add swap and newfs commands just fail. This seems to be due to disklabel, that does not seem to have made its way to the disk at all. Panics seem to be involved with disk configured to one or two slices and the latter newfs symptoms with the "totally dedicated" disk configuration. * disk is ok After all, I was able to install to the disk manually (fdisk, hand generated disklabel etc.) with a little help from already running system. * label editor: not recognizing the disklabel And when I return to the installer's label editor after written the disklabel and creating the filesystems, the label editor does not seem to recognize the label and filesystems (so that I could mount from the label editor, and proceed with the installation). * extract only not finding distributions And one thing with the extract only operation in the installer. It complained that it could not find the distribution, when the normal commit procedure finds the files. It seems, that if I do extract only, it assumes name/name.tgz, whereas the normal installer commit looks from name/name.aa etc.
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