Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:53:21 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-R installer bombs because I can't turn UDMA off... Message-ID: <20010315215321.24862@hydrogen.funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <15025.43252.892357.838080@guru.mired.org>; from Mike Meyer on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:47:32PM -0600 References: <90398345@toto.iv> <15025.32595.37743.216651@guru.mired.org> <20010315211635.03666@hydrogen.funkthat.com> <15025.43252.892357.838080@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer scribbled this message on Mar 15: > > that's a good option if the fixit.flp contained a copy of sysctl, but > > it doesn't, so it's quite hard when you don't have a copy of sysctl, > > I guess I *COULD* manually mount the cdrom, and extract out sysctl > > from the bin dist, but how the hell is Joe Newbie suppose to know how > > to do all of this?? > > Um - if you can mount the CDROM, you should be able to get to the > fixit cdrom as easily as you get to the fixit floppy. ummm... who said I had the fixit cdrom?? I only have the first cdrom thanks to a friend (Thanks Doug White! :) ), and even if the second cdrom is avail, there is no way I'm downloading a 600meg+ iso image over a 28.8kbps Ricochet.. > And yes, it'd be a lot easier if we could get hardware vendors to > install FreeBSD instead of Windows, but I wouldn't hold your breath. ummm.. who said anything about having hardware vendors loading FreeBSD? it wouldn't of helped in this case as I built the machine myself... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "Thank God I'm an atheist, that'd just be confusing." -- cmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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