Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 16:32:04 +0000 From: Ed Hudson <elh@p5.spnet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: elh@spnet.com Subject: 950202-SNAP, cpio, laptop, cirrus pcmcia Message-ID: <199502041632.QAA06653@p5.spnet.com>
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howdy. i think that 950202-SNAP is great. congrats to all. it is wonderful to have a free, real operating system who's quality exceeds commercial offerings in allmost all respects. FreeBSD is an excellent operating system. you all have a lot to be proud of. the SNAP install went perfectly onto a 486/aha/maxtor system. however, i had the same difficulty another poster mentioned with respect to the nfs read/write block sizes installing on my laptop, and a few otherones as well. specific problems i had with the install (laptop): the laptop contains the (a?) cirrus logic pcmcia chip set. --->>> in order for my national pcmcia ethernet 10b2 card to be recognized and work properly, i had to preinstall into the kernel if_ze patch posted by hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp after the 2.0-R release (fortunately, i had the 486/aha/maxtor system to kernel compile on...). this patch doesn't seem to have made it into the subsequent SNAP's. needing a special kernel created another problem (for me) in modifying the install sequence. the new cpio floppy contains a kernel, which overwrites the kernel loaded from the boot floppy. so replacing the kernel in just the boot floppy was inadequate. in my case, the generic boot floppy locks up my laptop (it does better if i disable everything but a minimum system). --->>> perhaps sysinstall could just rename the boot disk kernel, before loading the cpio floppy? this would make life a little simpler for me, at least. thanks again. -elh elh@spnet.com
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