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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:45:42 +0200
From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodme@bezeqint.net>
Subject: Binary Install of 4.0
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I'm getting desperate here:

1. Had 3.4 working fine. Tried upgrading from source and failed twice
(the new 4.0 kernel even destroyed my filesystem once...).

2. Decided to do a fresh install. Can't do FTP install as my Internet
connection is based on ISDN (which is not supported by the boot
floppies... too bad - 3.4 supports my ISDN card just fine.)

3. Downloaded 4.0-RELEASE/bin directory and tried installing from the
DOS partition (it is on wd2 while I'm installing on wd0). The
installation failed complaining that it cannot create a filesystem on
wd0 (Note that this is 4.0 #2 -- downloaded this morning). 

4. Strange. It worked perfectly for 3.x... Grabbed my old FreeBSD-3.3 cd
and performed a *minimal* freebsd 3.3 install. Then ran
'/stand/sysinstall' and selected upgrade - again from the dos partition.
This time everything worked fine... until about block 170/220 (or so..
don't remember the exact numbers) when I got the message 'sh: core
dumped'. Needless to say.. it didn't work.

Any ideas...?
-- Nimrod.

p.s. I'm running on Abit's BP6. I don't use the UDMA66 controller. wd0
is a seagate 4GB drive, wd2 is a maxtor 8GB drive. Everything works ok
with Win98 and Linux2.2. FreeBSD 3.4 used to generate those nasty
wdtimeout() messages now and then.. but otherwise everything worked ok.


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