Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:57:19 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: boot.flp versions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901202056001.1218-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990121123353.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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>From 19990112? I had no such problems on three different systems. (System #3 had a lot of other unrelated problems, like a loose ethernet cable and mislabelled jumpers on drives, but none of them were 19990112-related.) :) On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On 21-Jan-99 Richard J. Dawes wrote: : > The "boot.flp" in 3.0.0-19990112-SNAP/floppies is 2880K, which of course : > won't work. [I think this was acknowledged earlier by JKH, but has gone : > unfixed.] I'm wondering if an earlier boot.flp, say from the 1/6/99 : > SNAP, will work just the same? Thanks. : The boot.flp is broken.. : Try the 2 disk install (ie kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) : : They boot, but when I got some sucker^h^h^h^h friend to test it, he had no end of trouble : installing. Things like sysinstall trying to run the holographic shell twice, : mounting things twice and sig-11'ing.. : : I recommended a source install after that :) - Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Network Administrator, zigg.com <http://www.zigg.com/>; Engineer, Nameless IRC Network <http://www.nameless.net/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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