Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:16:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: wilko@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: U: Request for testers of "going nowhere without my init" Message-ID: <20000722101634.B26964@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211624350.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0700 References: <20000722004009.A22692@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211624350.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:21:38PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Complete report: > > I installed on a 4100's 4th scsi disk by: > > + dd'ing boot.flp onto the third disk (from NetBSD running on the > first disk) I deduct booting the floppies directly would not work? > + installing to the 4th disk via ftp. I created one root partition and a swap > partition on that device. > > + installing thru ftp firewall to the specific URL > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha > > + By selecting something other than 'all' (I think I selected 'developer' for > the source sets). > > Things went well until halfway throught profiled libs, when I guess the ftp > session borked (no way to get information from a serial install) and I had to > restart it. Other than not being able to set nis client info (which is a > generic problem) I was left with a usable and bootable system. > > At least based on this, we can say that 4100s *do* actually install. I could list this as a workaround in RELNOTES.. what do people think? -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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