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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad)
Date: 5 Jun 93 20:56:26
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Jun5205626@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com>
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In-reply-to: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com's message of Fri, 4 Jun 1993 14:24:15 GMT
In article <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com> drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes:
> o /root/.profile has /usr/local in the PATH variable but not
> /usr/local/bin.
actually, same for /usr/contrib. fixed; /usr/local and /usr/contrib
have been removed from root's path completely in root's .cshrc
and .profile.
> o Somehow the installation process setup my /etc/fstab to
> mount /dev/wd0e on //usr. I think this should be /usr.
from an aesthetics point of view, it should be /usr.
from a practical point of view, either works,
and that simplified the install program, allowing people to
specify mount points as either "/usr" or "usr" for example.
> o My system reboots spontaneously whenever it is halted.
> 386bsd used to wait for me to hit a key.
the current set of kcfloppies has this bug...
i'll fix it, put a new set up, and announce it here
(on .bugs) when they're available.
> o /etc/passwd specifies group id 28 for user operator but
> there is no group id 28 in /etc/group. Similarly, root has
> a group id of 10 but no corresponding /etc/group entry
> exists.
umm, i've now put root in group 0 (wheel), and operator in group 20
(staff) in the passwd file.
> o There is no warning that choosing a swap partition of a
> smaller size than system RAM size will disallow crash dumps.
i'll add this to the documentation soon...
> o Maybe timed should be disabled if there is no network?
umm, you can turn timed off easily enough in /etc/netstart;
to do so from the installation process was too much of a hassle,
given the time allowed to create the install disks...
> o "wdc0: extra interrupt" Anyone see this before? I usually
> get this message during the fsck phase of a reboot.
umm, i never saw it until i just stuffed bde's interrupt code
into our tree; now i do... it's being investigated... 8-)
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass