From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 25 06:09:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15325 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:09:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liquid.tpb.net (drum-n-bass.party-animals.com [194.134.94.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15320 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niels@bakker.net) Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by liquid.tpb.net (8.9.1a/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id PAA09251 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:08:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:08:47 +0100 (CET) From: N To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems In-Reply-To: <19981024192707.C183@Alameda.net> Message-ID: <981025150204.9115A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoth Ulf Zimmermann: > I have problems with the 3.0-R install on a net 10 install. The company I > work at uses 10.0/16 as the local address space and then a NAT/Firewall wall. > Adding a default route to 10.0.1.1 hangs for ever, even with a nameserver > configured. Installing with no DNS settings and using just plain IPs, the > install works fine. My experience: insert boot disk, boot computer, configure fxp0, hang on "Adding default route". Slap forehead, insert Ethernet cable. Unfortunately, once a DNS timeout seems to always be a DNS timeout on the boot disks; ^C'ing out of that particular message box is pretty impossible as well (it'll reboot if you try). Another thing I noticed yesterday: you can't have more than about ten disks attached when installing from boot.flp, else it'll run out of inodes creating the devices in /dev and have no space left for any temporary files in /tmp. I had to disconnect most of the external SCSI disks to even install 3.0. I tried some older boot disks but to no avail, they're all pretty short on inodes. Disklabel fails with a non-intuitive error if you try to disklabel a disk with half-complete entries in /dev, too. For the rest, 3.0 screams. :-) Take care, -- Niels. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message