Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:12:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: 950210 SNAP installation Message-ID: <199502261112.MAA03913@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Howdy,
on my way to get CVS-current up & running, i decided to trash all my
disks and repartition them. Good occasion to try 950210-SNAP, i
thought.
Overall impression: very well. Congrat's, guys!
My nits are:
My disk configuration is wd0 as boot disk, and a large sd0 as second
disk. Both disks are dedicated to FreeBSD. The first problems i ran
into have been with the disklabel editor.
If i partition e.g. a 100 MB slice, i E)edit 10 MB for `a', 25 MB for
`b', and the rest for `h'. The disklabel editor gives me `65' as
default for `h', but in order to use the disk up to the last bytes, i
have to modify this to `66'. This is somewhat confusing.
Finally got it, assigned all the mount points for my wd0, i had a hard
time in trying to assign the mount points for sd0. All the things i
did ended up in a stuck system with the only chance of ^C and reboot.
I've finally got it, perhaps it's necessary to assign all swap
partitions first, i'm not sure. All my initial attempts to A)ssign
ended up in the message ``Unknown file system type'' (even though it
has been correctly displayed as 4.2BSD). After i've first seen this
message, the whole thing stalled whenever i tried to Q)uit the
disklabel editor.
(wd0 contains a -> /, b -> swap, h -> /var; sd0 a -> /usr, b -> swap,
h -> /tmp)
Loading the tape went on fine, but i wish the following facilities
were there:
. Allow the user to interrupt the tape load process once he knows
that all the necessary bits are on disk. For me, my tape contained
the XFree86 stuff at the end, which i didn't like to get at this
time. Interrupting the tape load caused a reboot, and i had to
install from ufs after this. (No problem for me, but perhaps for
a newbie.)
. I'm not sure if the tape load code would have accepted all the
stuff being loaded under 2.0-950210-SNAP/{bin,src,...}, but this
is what our FTP mirror sites usually generate, so it should be
acceptable.
. I finally tried to ^Z out of the (ufs) installation procedure, ooops!
It fell over with telling me something about ``Checksum error'',
then ``bindist loaded ok'', then a short error message firing into
the sysinstall screen, until it finally rebooted. There's been no
obvious way to recover at this point, i had to load the missing
distributions manually.
Despite of this: GREAT WORK!
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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