Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 12:45:55 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: latest install adventures Message-ID: <m0sIfHn-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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from boot.flp retrieved from freefall 7AM Eastern time: installing onto *wd1* from a dos partition on *wd0* ... some of my problems went away ... I can install after telling it not to diddle with the MBR, but it marks the BSD partition bootable and unsets the OS/2 BM unbootable... again, BSD is going onto wd1 and BM is on wd0 ... should install not do *anything* to wd0 ??? I don't care what it does to it's own slice but it should not assume anything else about any other slice *or* disk, yes? * first run - installing only bin - while "Information dialog - Making devices" is displayed, I switch windows and the keyboard locks up requiring a hard reset. * second run - installing only bin goes fine - back to (D)istribution to install manpages and upon successful completion it attempts to make /dev again - "Unable to move all old devs back. Hmmm!" - on alt F2 "mv: rename /tmp/dev/* to /dev/*: No such file or directory" - then switching from the F4 shell (to see that /dev/* is there) locks the keyboard again. Booting dos/floppy to make BM active so that I can boot (still getting "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" after any encounter with install ... I do not know what it was doing before to cause dos fdisk (from a hard disk boot - not from a floppy boot) to crash or what happened to fix that problem but it works today. * third run - installing only bin goes fine - back to (D)istribution to install manpages and upon successful completion it attempts to make /dev again - "Unable to move all old devs back. Hmmm!" - on alt F2 "mv: rename /tmp/dev/* to /dev/*: No such file or directory" - then switching from the F4 shell (to see that /dev/* is there) locks the keyboard again. After booting dos/floppy to make BM active so that I can boot (still getting "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" after any encounter with install ... BM give me a FreeBSD option ... and it boots. * fourth run - installing only bin goes fine - back to (D)istribution to install manpages, compat20, dict (works this time!) and info, and upon successful completion it attempts to make /dev again - same as before - then, switching windows again locks up the keyboard - dos floppy / BM / routine to get BSD to boot - run /stand/sysinstall - install some other dist (I forgot to write it down) - trys to make /devs again - without even asking me about it I discover that a mount point is created and my cdrom is mounted, not that packages are on it but yesterday attempting to install packages began and ended with the system informing me that it could not find cdrom even though I was installing from a dos partition on another drive... - now I can install packages !!! exiting the package screen and the blue background is now black with each change of menu further not-clearing the now really confused-looking background - but it works - adduser works but it will not accept a yes answer for "invite user to other groups" question - back to install packages from a different directory and I switch to another screen to check disk space and yes, the keyboard locked up again. one minor cosmetic observation ... in the "progress" windows, shouldn't the white lines in the upper right corner extend into the corner and down the right side slightly to indicate a proper (from a physics perspective) looking shadow? yea, I am a physicist. :) everything improved for me on this floppy set (actually it never asks for the root floppy now) EXCEPT the locking up the keyboard part ... both during install and after while running systinstall. I would gladly take back some of the old problems if my keyboard did not lock up. :) I may have time for one more iteration, but I am going out of town for a 5 day weekend starting tomorrow PM. Thanks guys! -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us
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