Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA install report, minor problems. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970109020434.23116I-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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1) Configuring local time zone results in a "copied" message after copying the file which seems a little redundant give that you just selected what you wanted to do, it asked to confirm it, and then tells you that it did it. Time consuming. 2) The box I was installing on had BSD/OS installed on it. For whatever reason, Custom -> Options -> Labels would *not* result in an installable disk. The newfs of the /usr partition would fail with invalid block numbers and such. In fact, it decided my 1 GB Conner disk was a 2 GB disk, and merrily went through all the config stuff, up until the newfs, which failed trying to write past the end of media. I tried everything I could think of. fdisk shows totally bizarre numbers for the partition table, and the only way I could get the damn thing to install properly was to low-level format the disk from my Adaptec controller. (BTW, this was on a P100, 2 Conner 1GB disks, 2 conner 4GB disks). After that, the install worked fine. However, even now, When I run disklabel auto on the 4GB disks, it fails with all kinds of errors about end-of-media stuff. Low level format cleaned it right up, but it seems unnecessary.
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