Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 14:28:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD hackerlist <FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@tfs.com> Subject: New Snapshot...Good and Bad.... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950330134435.9534A-100000@saul4.u.washington.edu>
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HI folks; Well, i have returned to the netlands, after being down with a rather troublesome upgrade to the latest snap. First of all, the good news...Man, that kernel boots quick! The probe routines seem to be much smarter, i would guess that the GENERIC kernel booted in half the time the 2.0 GENERIC booted in! 2nd good news! the console BEL function seems to have been finally implemented correctly. I get lots of happy noises from seyon when it connects ( a different one for each connection! ) and my remote shells with term now transmit the BEL when new messages are queued by pine running on the school system.... neat! 3rd FINAL BEST NEWS ! THE NCA DRIVER WORKS!!!! I HAVE A TAPE DRIVE AT LONG LAST YIPPEE !!!! nca is the driver for the ncr 8 bit scsi chip found on the cheesy 16 sound plus cdrom cards from PAS ( not the scsi II faast and wide cards..the scsi I narrow and slow cards ) I am really happy about this, i signed up for killing my system with a snapshot in order to see if the nca driver actually was actually working..in case inquiring minds wanted to know.. most of my important applications have compiled smoothly including term, which actually nolonger requires makefile hacking in order to get it to install anymore mostly the good is pretty damn good, but then there is the bad.. :-( For a net connected or cdrom owning person i would imagine that the 2.0 install is way cool. The graphics are good, the idea is pretty sound, but it seems to be lacking any mechanism that i can see for doing the install in a robust way, meaning that if u have succeeded in newfs'ing the system and getting part of the dist on, it wants to either say "whooppee! your done!" or F*$K YOU! START OVER! So currently I am left with all of the config stuff completely hosed! I dont want to be root on myname.my.domain forever! How do i run sysinstall again with out having it insist on newfsing my damn harddrive. I conceed the possibilty of ignorance on my part, but can somebody tell me how i am suppossed to finish the configuration and addd my wife and i on as newusers? The configuration is really important because while i no have tty access to the net via term, it is not allowing me to use my other term aware apps such as my web browser: : gethostbyname: myname.my.domain: Non-authoritative `host not found', or server failed ALL of my CLASSES use the WEB to disseminate info to the students, ( oh , aint modern life grand.. ) so i would really appreciate some help on this, please... the other problem, which i imagine is a snapshot kind of thing ,is that CLISP falls over dead while it is trying to bootstrap iself. It sez it has a memory error and then dumps core.: ;; Loading file /usr/local/clisp-1994-01-25/src/clos.lsp ...Memory fault - core dumped *** Error code 139 lord only knows what is going on here, if anybody is worried about this, they can email me and i will do what ever they would like to have done test wise... iwould point out that this was happy as a clam on 2.0 all in all good work! with what i expect will be an enhanced install 2.1 should have a lot to offer! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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