Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:39:29 +0200 From: mal@algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) To: freebsd-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: dos/floppy installation problems (2.0.5A, boot 950605 ~04:00) Message-ID: <9506052039.AA06294@sophocles.>
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I finally got to upgrade my system to 2.0.5A today (have used a snap
from february so far). Here are the problems I stumbled into.
- When choosing installation from a DOS partition, there seems to be
no way to tell where the files are. Worse, the fact that they are
expected to be under c:\freebsd\bin etc is not very clear neither
from the documentation, in the installation menus or from the error
messages. (Where the root disk is looked for I don't even know now
after a successful installation since I could put in a floppy when
it was not found on the disk.)
- When I tried to install from floppies, I got a "you can remove the disk"
almost immediately for each disk. Where I wrong to assume floppy
install wants dos files on dos formatted disks?? (The "mount /dev/fd0??
/mnt" in the debug window looked like a try to mount a ufs disk to me.)
- In one of my installation tries, I jumped in and configured the lp0
interface _before_ doing the installation. This might have been wrong
since it didn't succeed, but it would be nice if there was some way
to "unconfigure" an interface. I had to restart the installation to
get past this error. (Maybe there _is_ a way that I missed?)
- Finally when the system rebooted, there were no entries in /dev for
sd0s4e, where fstab wanted my /usr. I changed it to sd0e in the fstab.
(I did get an error message with something like "tar returned 1" or similar
at the very very end of the bindist installation, could that be the source
of this problem? I ignored that since I'm going to rebuild everything
anyway.)
[- I once choose n for newfs (since I already had been trough that step
a number of times :-). Later on I got a message saying something like
"you choose a read only root partition". Bug? I'm not very sure about
the circumstances that resulted in this one, could be something else
but I got the impression it was because of the newfs n choice.]
System: 486DX2/66 w. 16 MB, bt445s scsi, fujitsu 1 GB disk, some old compaq
graphics card, soundblaster 16 etc.
The disk was partitioned into 100 MB dos, the rest bsd (~30 MB /, 64 swap,
800 /usr) when I started the installation.
_
Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se
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