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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA problems... /bin/cat and /dev/sio* Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:24:31 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <28hi3f$isb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: FreeBSD sio problems In article <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu>, bryan o'connor <bryan@fegmania.wustl.edu> wrote: > >Hi! > >I tried installing FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA last night. I ran into the following >problems and would appreciate any help. (If these are FAQs, please point >me to the FAQ... I have looked). > > 1. /bin/cat keeps disappearing. At first I thought it was a cruel > joke. After each extract, /bin/cat would disappear. I ended up > copying it off the cpio floppy and extracting the savesets > manually. What's the deal? Am I doing something wrong? That was one of the problems with the old install disks. If you would have gotten the newer ones, it should have been fixed. > 2. I can't get the serial ports to work. I MAKEDEV'd sio01 and sio02 > and tried to use tip and cu. They will connect and then give me > Input/Output errors and die. Am I doing something wrong? > I fiddled with /etc/remote and added entries for sio01 and sio02. Do a stty -f /dev/sio01 clocal which should fix things up. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me