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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:22:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        vel@twister.artelecom.ru
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some FreeBSD bugs that not yet fixed.
Message-ID:  <199710011222.OAA20196@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: vel@twister.artelecom.ru's message of Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:18:45 GMT
References:  <199710011318.NAA06479@FreeBSD.siu.kbsu.edu>

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> 
> Hi friends !
> I'm using FreeBSD about 2 year and I think that it's great and cool !
> But I see some bugs in all FreeBSD versions since 2.1.0
> 1. When I insert floppy disk with BAD tracks in system areas, and then
> do "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt", the system sometimes hangs up. I still
> can switch between consoles, but all processes stops and I can't do
> anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work also, the only way to reboot is pressing
> RESET.
> 2. I installed FreeBSD from DOS portition, and I want to remove this
> partition after installation. I run "sysinstall" utility, enter 
> "Disk Partition Editor", remove DOS partition and create new FreeBSD partition.
> Then I enter "Disk Label Editor", create slices I need and press "w" to
> write changes. Sysinstall utility says "segmentation fault, core dumped"
> at this point.

This is probably due to the DOS file system not being stable enough.
Try unmounting and removing the DOS-partition from /etc/fstab before
you replace it with a BSD partition.

Eivind.



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