Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 23:43:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5 Alpha Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950603232922.1397B-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>
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Well, I gave the install a try today... got some problems.... Boots up nicely & now notices the 850MB WDC drive. 1) Goes into the first screen (but some of the .hlp files are missing or was that intentional?) 2) I plan to ftp to a local machine, so I choose options and the menu option ftp userpass and enter the info. But when I get out of the menu and get back in, the option is no longer checked. The menu says press F1 for more help on these options, but pressing F1 does nothing. 3) Now I go to "Proceed" and then the partition screen. Partitioning is easy, but now I am faced with a dilemma. The drive I using for FreeBSD is a 540MB Conner (Drive D if it was in DOS). Do I set the boot flags for both partitions on wd1? Again, no slice.hlp to help me. Label and distributions are self-explanatory. 4) I choose cuaa1, and enter the network info. Next, I choose Install and get the boot manager screen. If I leave MBR untouched, the system ALWAYS hangs with the error: "Fatal Error: Invalid variable format: - PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT" If I chose standard for the boot manager, then I don't get that error. 5) So now if in another session, and I choose standard, it sometimes gives me an error about a read only root device (at the point of no return prompt). 6) Okay, next it asks me out PPP, and I choose that option. Okay... here's where things get a bit hairy... We have 4 vttys I believe, and the third has the ppp program started. If the ppp ever hangs or if I type close, the whole vtty is hung. So then I hop over to the vtty via ALT-F4 and run ppp. Anyway, it connects one way or another. I just wish this was like some of the snapshots which gave us an option of manually doing the ftp to a local directory. But that seems to be gone or am I mistaken? 7) So with the PPP connection working, it successfully grabs the root.flp image. Then it tries to grab the bin stuff but can't find them because I left them in bin.aa etc format. The install script looks for bin/bin.tgz .... Hmmmm.... I believe the same is true for des/des.tgz Anyway, not a major problem... so I just joined the .xx files together. 8) Oh yeah, there's a tendency for the install script to say installation complete etc when it hits an error. Then I notice that the serial PPP link for some reason just hangs. And anything I type in vty 3 just echoes back to the screen but hangs. So I hop over to vty4 and connect the ppp again. 9) Now the install program starts getting the files... but unfortunately, it hangs part way through... oh well... So I check vtty 4, and the ppp program dumped me back to #. So I restart the ppp connection... and it goes okay for a while, but then hangs again. Now I suspect his could be caused by flow control... Or is rtscts flow control automatically set using ppp? I remember pppd use to give that as an option. Well, any help is appreciated.
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