Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:19:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Shaun (UNIX)" <fido@yaahoo.yi.org> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003092217430.17355-100000@cr759667-a.nvcr1.bc.wave.home.com> In-Reply-To: <14536.37324.570844.920977@whale.home-net>
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Hello, You are using RC3 ? Hmm...I wonder why you are not getting the ATA prob problems like alot of us are. What is your system config? Yes it is FAST! and I love it....I see that the 64MB memory problem has been fix at the install level. 3.x only reads 64MB of RAM at the floppy install. 4.0 reads all of my 128MB. Cheers Shaun On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John Reynolds wrote: > > OK, finally had a chance to frag the hard drive and install 4.0-RC3 from cdrom > and see how it went. Here's my observations on the good: > > 1) On the same hardware as I tested 4.0-RC and 4.0-RC2 on, now I no longer get > those "long ATA probes"! This is awesome! Whatever was done, is great, now > the machine boots very speedily. > > 2) The "Standard Installation" is much better than "Novice". It was good to > rename this. > > 3) I chose the "A" option for partition/label and good, reasonable defaults > were given to me. > > 4) The "Standard Install" went flawlessly (despite my best attempts at pilot > error :). > > Now observations on a few nit-picky things: > > 1) There is a typo (spelling error) in one of the dialogs I was presented. I > was trying to force pilot error into the situation :) and got a dialog that > contained the following line: > > "You can also chose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the > installation menus to try and retry whichever operations failed." > > The word "chose" should be "choose." I'd supply a patch, but I only > installed kernel source :( > > 2) Again, while trying to inject pilot error, I created a FreeBSD partition of > only 10Mb and gave that as the only slice the Label editor could deal > with. When I hit 'A' to have it auto-decide, it came back with a dialog > box: > > "Unable to create root partition. Too big?" > > I assume by what I gave to it, that it means to say "dummy, you didn't give > me a big enough slice with which to work, try again." If that is the case, > perhaps a small re-write of the dialog message is in order to help explain > what has gone on and a possible course of action to correct the > problem--like "give me a larger slice to work with here". In all honesty, I > *meant* to create a 10Gb partition and typed so fast that my brain didn't > snap that "10M" != "10G" ... and thus I presented a wierd situation to the > Label editor. > > The system is fast, GNOME+E. desktop is usable, kernel config went like a > charm. Looks *real* good from where I'm sittin'. Good work to all! Let's ship > this puppy. :) > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation > jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running > jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. > http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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