From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 05:42:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA18122 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 05:42:28 -0700 Received: from ns.ge.com (ns.ge.com [192.35.39.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA18116 ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 05:42:27 -0700 Received: from thomas.ge.com ([3.47.28.21]) by ns.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA05793; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:42:25 -0400 Received: from salem.ge.com (carsdb.salem.ge.com [3.29.7.15]) by thomas.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA00522; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:43:30 -0400 Received: from combs.salem.ge.com by salem.ge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11599; Tue, 20 Jun 95 08:42:40 EDT Received: (from steve@localhost) by combs.salem.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) id IAA09685; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:42:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:42:40 -0400 From: "Stephen F. Combs" Message-Id: <199506201242.IAA09685@combs.salem.ge.com> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Problems with Installing 2.0.5R Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying to install 2.0.5R since last Thursday, 15 June. It's up and running but here's the problems I've been having. First, here's the hardware it's running on: DOLCH 386-33 MB w/20MB RAM, Adaptec 1542CF with BIOS Translation turned off, 2 Serial Ports, NO Parallel Ports, ATI VGAWonder XL w/1MB RAM and onboard Mouse, 3COM 3C503 (8-Bit) Ethernet, USRobotics 14,400 Internal modem w/16550Equiv, Digiboard COM-4 DUMB 4-port Serial I/O. ST31200 1.0GB SCSI-2 Disk, DEC RZ25 400MB SCSI-2 Disk, Archive 2150S QIC-150 1/4" Tape Drive SCSI-1, Sun/Sony CD-ROM SCSI-2 (external). Now the problems: 1) Infamous "missing operating system". I tried to install 2.0.5R on an old CDC WREN SCSI-1 drive which has been running FreeBSD since the days of 1.0E. I backed up the old partitions and began the install using the boot.flp image of 12 June. Built new partitions, assigned new slices, etc... System would not boot, saying "missing operating system". I had a new Seagate 31200 and decided to start fresh. Same problem! I tried again and this time went BACK to the partition table after all was installed but before rebooting and discovered that even tho I had flagged the partition as bootable, IT WASN'T marked as such after installing the distribution. I flagged it as bootable again and all was OK on the reboot! 2) Using the ST31200, I couldn't get it to accept the untranslated geometry. The system has ONLY FreeBSD on it (no DOS, no OS/2, no WinNT). The only way the system would work, is to create a 1MB DOS partition (which forced translated geometry) and then delete it and assign the entire disk to FreeBSD. 3) BIN Dist failed to install. DEBUG Screen said "gunzip: unexpeced EOF" (not exact message). Then "cpio: unexpected EOF". Re-Downloaded new bin dist and tried again (same problem). System was up enough to continue install. 4) Usr.SBin Dist failed to install with the same message as BIN Dist. After getting this series of messages, I tried to list the dist(s) on my SPARC at work. Using "zcat bin.?? | tar tf -" as the command, I got the SAME type of message with the BIN Dist on the Sun. Using the "cat bin.?? | tar ztf -" all worked OK. Same story on the "susbin.??" distribution. The listing failed on the FIRST file in the susbin distribution and on the LAST file on the BIN dist. After these tests, I completely redid the source extraction using the command "cat .?? | (cd ; tar zxf -)" and am (as I write this) doing a "make world" in the source tree. 5) XF86 Failed completely to install via the sysinstall system. I was able to extract it using the command in the Readme file just fine. FYI, the error symptom from sysinstall was an immediate return when selecting the X install. No error, no nuthin' just an immediate return to the menu. Ditto for package installs. I was able to install various packages using the old "pkg_add" command with no problem. This message is not intended to be a bitch, gripe, etc... about the install process. I happen to think (once I've/You've figured out what happened) that the install is the best yet! Beats the old 386BSD 0.1 install hands down (course, it wouldn't take much to beat that!). Overall I think 2.0.5 is quite an acomplishment! Kudos to all!!!!!! The only problem I'm seeing to-date with the system is some 'sio overruns' when my PPP link is up, I'll investigate them later...... Steve Combs Communications Analyst GE Motors & Industrial Systems Drive Systems Salem, VA Voice: (703)387-8828 Internet: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM Internet-Home: CombsSF-Home@Salem.GE.COM