Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:16:02 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report.. [And SPEAK UP NOW, DAMN IT!] Message-ID: <1254.849251762@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:52:30 GMT." <1.5.4.16.19961129035230.2df7238c@pollux.or.signature.nl>
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In message <1.5.4.16.19961129035230.2df7238c@pollux.or.signature.nl>, Bart Smit writes: >At 12:27 AM 11/28/96 -0800, jkh wrote: >> Please, don't do this! The time to test out the 2.2-ALPHA boot floppy >> and see if it works with your IDE CDROM is *RIGHT NOW*, not in 6 > >This really got me off my butt ;) Installed 2.2-ALPHA using boot.flp (not >boot4) on a crappy Cyrix 486/40 DLC board that always refused (sig 11) to >run previous releases of FreeBSD. Its CDROM also used to go undetected (on >other machines). > >First the good news. Further down 3 (tiny) problems that I ran accross. > >2.2-ALPHA has been running on this crappy machine without any noticable >problems for half a day now. I don't know why... Hmm, could you provide more details ? It's very hard to make it crash unless we know why it works ? :-) >Now some small problems: > >* I could not find any info on the difference between boot.flp and >boot4.flp. If there are two boot floppies, please make it obvious which one >you should use. I just used boot.flp. boot4.flp is intended for 4MB machines and has less online help on it. It will be unsupported in the 2.2 release and will not work for network installs, but maybe cdrom installs will work. >* In the install program, the text in the menu where you select an FTP site >to install from says that I can specify 'Other' but the option itself is now >called 'URL'. Yes, you're supposed to type something like: ftp://foo.bar.com/home/somebody/FreeBSD -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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