Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 12:23:01 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: gwk@cray.com Cc: amjudge@dsg.cs.tcd.ie, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install problem with 2.0.5-ALPHA (UPDATE floppy image) Message-ID: <199506011923.MAA10248@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jun 95 21:02:32 %2B0200." <9506011902.AA09513@racer.dkrz.de>
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>> >> I can't get FTP/other to work at all. Something seems to corrupt the >> URL that I type before it gets to the FTP stage. I get a popup dialog >> complaining about some garbage URL (like '', or '^A', or ' ^Gwish >> sd'). >> > >Same for me. And I can't get floppy installation to work. It seems >to try to mount the root.flp floppy, which I have rawritten. Who's >wrong, the machine or me? And I can't get NFS installation to work, >something like permission problems. When the NFS filesystem is Do you have the partion exported with root permissions? Sysinstall runs as root, so it will become user "nobody" on the mounted partition if you don't allow root access to the partition. >mounted, I cannot even cd into the mountpoint directory, "permission >denied". And I can't get installation from a DOS partition to work, >some kind of error during mounting, I don't recall exactly what. > >The one time that I tricked the system (actually I switched to VT4 and >manually extracted the root.flp, then configured the ethernet, ftp-ed >the bindist to /tmp, switched back to the menu and let it go >installing from UFS), I actually got *something* installed. But when >I booted from the harddisk, I got tons of "signal 11"s. > >Guess it's time to give up for today. My previous experience with the >installation menu of 2.0R and various snapshots was not this bad. > >Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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